"They slit the throat of my only child in front of my eyes."

"They slit the throat of my only child in front of my eyes." As a father, that line jumped out at me from the report Amnesty International released today detailing some of the attrocities happening right now in Sudan: "Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences"

Amidst growing calls for international humanitarian military intervention in Sudan, the best our great nation has offered so far is a weak-kneed U.N. resolution that would merely ban arms sales to an already well-armed militia and ban international travel by Janjaweed leaders who don't travel abroad in the first place. As somebody who served and was born, raised, and educated in the U.S. military, I personally can think of few better cases that cry out for some form of military response, especially knowing now how little force would have been effective in Rwanda. But even if you disagree with calls for military action, any first year student of international relations knows that there's a lot of grey area between what we're pushing in the U.N. and a non-military international response that might actually make a difference.

The good news is that citizens are starting to organize to demand a more serious response. A coalition of several groups is organizing a rally in Washington, D.C., Thursday at noon across from the White House. For more information and to sign up, click here.

And if you do nothing else, call or e-mail your elected leaders to demand action.

(The photo on the right is my child. The photo on the left is the children of a parent in Darfur, taken by Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times.)