How will history judge us?

By ANNE APPLEBAUM

There was a photograph: a weeping Sudanese woman, standing before a freshly dug grave. There were statistics: 400,000 people dead, 2.5 million driven from their homes, "untold thousands" raped. There was an appeal: "Innocent civilians are being slaughtered in Darfur. You can end it," and a Web address, www.dayfordarfur.org.

But what really made me look twice was the slogan across the top: "When all the bodies have been buried in Darfur, how will history judge us? Read more >>>