{"id":3781,"date":"2008-12-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:25:58","slug":"darfur-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Darfur update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#39;t posted anything on Darfur in quite awhile.<\/p>\n<p>And things don&#39;t seem to be getting any better. This is an editorial from yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/11\/opinion\/11thu1.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\"><font color=\"#800080\">Editorial &#8211; Darfur, Another Year Later &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Much of the fault lies with Sudan\u2019s cynically obstructionist president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. But Russia and especially China \u2014 which has major oil interests in Sudan \u2014 have shamefully enabled him. So have African leaders. The United States and its allies also bear responsibility for temporizing, most recently over how to transport troops and equipment to the conflict zone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#39;t posted anything on Darfur in quite awhile. And things don&#39;t seem to be getting any better. This is an editorial from yesterday. Editorial &#8211; Darfur, Another Year Later &#8211; NYTimes.com Much of the fault lies with Sudan\u2019s cynically obstructionist president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. But Russia and especially China \u2014 which has major oil interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}