Demagogue

Congratulations to all those who have died in Darfur - your misery has become so prolonged and the situation so dire that it has finally made it into the Associated Press's list of top ten stories of 2006 - just barely

1. IRAQ

2. U.S. ELECTION

3. NUCLEAR STANDOFFS

4. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

5. SCANDALS IN CONGRESS

6. SADDAM CONVICTED

7. MIDEAST FIGHTING

7. RUMSFELD RESIGNS

9. AIRLINER PLOT

10. DISASTER IN DARFUR

You didn't make it in 2005, 2004, or 2003, but you stuck with it and continued to get killed, raped, and succumb to disease and malnutrition while being increasingly cut off from assistance as hope for any sort of solution rapidly disappeared.

It took three years, but your suffering has finally been noticed. Enjoy it while you can, because next year at this time, if you are still alive, the continuing lack of any discernable plan to alleviate your suffering probably won't qualify as newsworthy.