This cartoon on today’s Washington Post editorial page lays the responsibility for the current tragedy in Sudan at the feet of…the Bush administration. Excuse me, but how did America get stuck with this? Aren’t the 158,000 refugees and thousands of deaths the responsibility of the United Nations? I thought liberals at the Post objected to unilateral action by the United States abroad?

If the U.N. doesn’t exist to intervene in situations like the crisis in Dufar, then why have a U.N. at all? If the United States has become, as the Post insists today, the de facto U.N., then lets stop paying our billions in dues and send Kofi and the gang packing.