Britain steps up

Britain's senior military commander, General Mike Jackson, announced today that Britain could assemble a force of 5,000 soldiers for a humanitarian military intervention in Sudan.

Meanwhile, while calling for a tougher U.N. Security Council resolution, the Bush Adminstration continues to resist using the g-word. Reuters reports that "despite weeks of investigating and a trip to the area by Secretary of State Colin Powell last month, the Bush administration said it still did not have proof of genocide."

For the record, the United States already has at least several hundred troops stationed in Djibouti for operations against al Queda. Maybe now would be the right time for a Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa joint training exercise that would temporarily expand the U.S. troop presence there.