Genocide

How is it that the U.S. has known for over a year about the Genocide in Darfur and it is still going on? On June 1, 2005 it was reported that Bush declared the killings in Darfur Genocide. The United States, under the 1948 U.N. convention on genocide, is committed to preventing such killings and punishing the killers if it deems a genocide is taking place.

However, Bush met with South African president Thabo Mbeki and Secretary of NATO to discuss the Darfur situation, and after commented that "Our government has put a lot of money to help deal with the human suffering there," and therefore would continue to support via financial contributions, yet would not be willing to send troops. Of course, we'll send an abundance of troops into a country who isn't asking for help, but when thousands of people are dying daily we turn our hands. Though, Mbeki alluded to the fact that this is an African problem and that it needs to be dealth with on African soil by Africans, can we do no more than write a check? After Bush met with Mbeki in 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made efforts to persuade the world's wealthiest nations to double aid to Africa, and Bush rebuffed his efforts.

What is Bush trying to prove?