Two Years to Self Destruct in Sudan

It's not too late to stop Africa's largest country from splitting in half. But Obama needs to act now to prevent the worst.

BY JOHN NORRIS | SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Imagine if we had enjoyed the luxury of knowing, two years before it happened, that Yugoslavia would disintegrate in 1991. Or just think if U.S. diplomats had been able to predict years earlier exactly when the Soviet Union was going to collapse. One certainly hopes the United States would have been better positioned to deal with these momentous events. But a current case gives one pause....

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John Norris is executive director of the Enough Project, an initiative of the Washington-based Center for American Progress.

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