UN Troops to Darfur

After years of talking about the genocide in Sudan and trying to get Sudanese permission to station peacekeeping troops in the country, and even though they expect deployment to take another year, the UN has approved 26,000 troops and police to be sent to Darfur.

Special rapporteur Manfred Nowak, U.N. anti-terror investigator, says that "soldiers from countries whose armies are suspected of engaging in torture or other abuse should not be considered for peacekeeping duty."

I guess that frees us up from having to send any of our already overstretched troops.