The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition