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Yesterday morning, the United Nations Security Council authorized a UN peacekeeping force to expand from Southern Sudan into Darfur, to replace the African Union peacekeepers who will leave at the end of this month. The resolution asks the government of Sudan to approve the expansion — permission that, to date, Khartoum has not been willing to give.

Congress has not fulfilled its promise. In 2004, the House and Senate unanimously proclaimed that genocide — perpetrated by the government of Sudan — was occurring in Darfur. The facts back them up. As many as 400,000 civilians have died and more than 2.5 million Darfurians have been displaced.