I have just described Sudan. For readers who may not know the geography and demography, a terrible genocide directed by the Sudanese government is occurring in Sudan's western Darfur region. George Clooney essentially wants the United States and United Nations to invade Darfur to stop the genocide. However, I've also sketched Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Clooney and his clan object to the coalition war in Iraq. Hypocritical? Inexcusably hypocritical, but all too typical of the Hollywood left and their elite media pals.RCP

Just to underscore the double standard, Rev. Sharpton reportedly marched against the Iraq war in New York on Saturday, then marched in Washington on Sunday for more intervention in Sudan. (...)It's wonderful and encouraging that tens of thousands turned out to support action in Darfur yesterday and to protest the Sudanese regime. But when one considers that a similar rally against the Iranian president's vow to wipe Israel off the map attracted but a few hundred participants, it's unnerving. Perhaps, as our Benny Avni writes elsewhere in today's Sun, the American victory at the U.N. Security Council on Darfur will pave the way for a similar victory over Iran. For international crisis intervention need not be an either-or proposition. Opposing the war in Iraq while favoring an intervention in Sudan is akin to the position of an American during World War II who favored fighting Japan but taking a strictly pacifist stance toward Germany. It's so illogical as to make one wonder why. NYS