Monday, August 6 07

Darfur rebel factions except one now endorse principles of future "power-sharing, wealth-sharing, security arrangements, land and humanitarian issues" (1,2,3), with negotiations scheduled shortly. Deadlock is broken in East Timor, as Gusmao is named P.M., and sporadic violence erupts in Dili. With recognition virtually guaranteed, Serbia announces support for Kosovo's partial sovereignty. Priority of the U.S. military should be to reduce the small arms available in Iraq (1,2). Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagen anchor their liberal interventionism in the U.N. Security Council and/or a broad, bipartisan consensus among the U.S.A.'s democratic partners.