'Sleeping Dragon' Shows Global Claws

Published April 6, 2005

During the long and, so far, mostly failed attempt by the world community to protect the people of Sudan's Darfur region from ethnic cleansing and very possibly from genocide, a repeated frustration has been the effect of a possible veto by one of members of the U.N. Security Council.

To avoid the stalemate a veto would cause, those countries seeking action, such as France and the U.S., have had to...