As for the ICC warrant receiving support if it gets issues, I truly doubt it. People are more concerned about the economic crisis. Even Hillary throw human rights under the bus when dealing with China recently.

It’s sad.

I am glad that you addressed the pending ICC arrest warrant controversey and that you went back to follow-up on Susan E. Rice’s positions on Darfur. First of all, the DIPNOTE blog is NOT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal blog. DIPNOTE was launched in September 2007 by (acting) State Department Secretary for Public Affairs Robert Wood with encouragement by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a new public diplomacy tool. There have been significant changes to a number of official US government websites i.e. the former USINFO site and VOA News over the past few years as well.

That is a very interesting take you have on the impact of an ICC arrest warrant on the Sudanese government, the people of Sudan, and of course the millions of Sudanese living in refugee camps in Darfur and Chad. Your viewpoints on this important matter are very much appreciated, as are those of your readers. I found the claim by one of your commenters that there is a great deal of buzz and Angst in and around Khartoum re: the pending indictment to be most interesting. I thought that the supporters of President Omar al-Bashir were totally indifferent to the ICC, the African Union, and the United Nations?

As far as what the new US Ambassador to the UN, Susan E. Rice (Condi’s evil twin sister), will say and do re: the ICC indictment will depend wholly upon US President Obama’s instructions (with advisements from his Cabinet members and experts on the crisis). Susan E. Rice is no longer a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution where she could say what she thought without restraint.

If the hammer does fall and the ICC judges actually issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudan’s president, then President Obama and the US government will be placed into a very delicate position because of previous US administrations’ resistance to join the signatories to the International Criminal Court. Let’s hope that President Obama does what is right and follows through on his previous statements and positions re: Darfur. Let’s also hope that the ICC decision receives strong support from the court’s signatories, especially the EU member countries and any countries in the Arab and Muslim world who have signed up to the ICC.