Osama's Darfur threat followed by more NATO involvement there

Washington Times:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that NATO leaders have agreed to take on a more "robust" role in Sudan's Darfur region and urged other international bodies to prepare the way.
NATO diplomats said that earlier disagreements among the allies over involvement in Darfur had been resolved, but impediments remained, such as the Sudanese government's objection to a U.N. peacekeeping mission.
"Everybody recognizes that the [African Union] mission, while it has been successful thus far, is not robust enough to deal with the continued violence in Darfur and, particularly, problems that are emerging in western Darfur given the situation and problems on the border with Chad," Miss Rice said.
In Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "An unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States is posed by the persistence of violence in Sudan's Darfur region, particularly against civilians."
Miss Rice, speaking to reporters after a meeting of the 26 NATO foreign ministers in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, said that "NATO is ready to work" with the United Nations and the African Union (AU) "to try to bring about that more robust mission."

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The story does not indicate what the African Union troops have done to stop the genocide against the citizens of Darfur. While the UN may be able to overcome the resistance of China and others to intervention, it appears that NATO is ready to act. It should do so on the basis that it is interveneing in a civil war that is much more deadly than the one people are complaining about in Iraq. Humanitarian efforts are against the interest of one of the parties to the war and they will be fought much as they were in Somalia's civil war. "Mission creep" should not be an issue, because whoever goes in will be going in to defeat a party to the war.