Eggers speaks for Sudan

Image by Stephanie Augustine for the NY Times


Ebb does not follow ebb -- flood is in between.
-Sudanese proverb

Dave Eggers, the author of 'What is the What' wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times today called 'In Sudan, War is Around the Corner,' concerning the war torn land of Sudan. It was a plead of sorts, for America to use its diplomatic leverage to aid Sudan before the foreseeable possibility of a faulty, violent outcome to their National elections in January. The Nation has long been divided from the Islamic government of the North and Khartoum, and the South, where the majority of the Nation's oil lies. If the election goes poorly then violence will surely erupt between the two. There has been a slight lull in the intensity of bloodshed since the United States helped wager a comprehensive Peace Agreement between the North and South in 2005. Eggers now calls upon America to use its standing to prevent the violence before it arises.

He summons the memory of Rwanda, in which President Clinton regrets he did not step in sooner. The International community did not intervene before all havoc and bloodshed had been done. Indeed Sudan has been through one of the most tragic civil wars of the 20th century, it is still vulnerable to devolution. I enjoyed the informed and political summons of this editorial.