Letter to Roger Cohen, IHT

RU Down w/ R2P?
See "Change You Can Believe In",
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/20/opinion/edcohen.php

I applaud your bringing forward the idea of "responsibility to protect" as a limitation on national sovereignty. It is an idea whose time has been long overdue.

I'm sorry the dictates of your format require a lead paragraph (and I quibble: Barack Obama didn't become a serious contender in the last week). I would suggest a better lede would have been how the "internal" issue of Darfur has become an international one with the violence in Chad--and how that happens all the time (think of the connection of Rwanda and the war in the Congo area). Such an argument is more likely to convince the hard-headed pragmatists that this expansion of international law is necessary.