{"id":4708,"date":"2006-02-18T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2025-09-24T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:03:11","slug":"us_policy_to_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4708","title":{"rendered":"U.S. policy to shift in Darfur region of Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/17\/AR2006021701935.html?referrer=email&amp;referrer=email\">Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur<\/a> and NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/18\/politics\/18prexy.html?_r=1&amp;th=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;emc=th&amp;adxnnlx=1140311001-cOfcUEjQOTh\/NXwxyjd5Ag\">Bush Sees Need to Expand Role of NATO in Sudan &#8211; New York Times<\/a> ran stories on the Bush administrstion&#8217;s evident desire to move beyond the &quot;stagnant&quot; talks and get more aid to Darfur, as well as aiming to end the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Darfur has been a several year disaster, with about 200,000 people dead, and an estimated 2,000,000 homeless. You can find out what&#8217;s happened there by reading either of the above articles (WaPo is a little more in-depth and will be available indefinitely for free online.)<\/p>\n<p>Brigid and I have been following this situation, but haven&#8217;t done much, beyond make a few calls and write some letters urging the Congress and administration to step up their efforts. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Washington Post Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur and NY Times Bush Sees Need to Expand Role of NATO in Sudan &#8211; New York Times ran stories on the Bush administrstion&#8217;s evident desire to move beyond the &quot;stagnant&quot; talks and get more aid to Darfur, as well as aiming to end the [&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-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","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=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9798,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}