Repetition is the name of the game
From Moammar Gadhafi's Darfur "peace talks" today, which weren't really talks because rebel leaders didn't show up, and one side can't sit there and make peace with itself:
"'The government of Sudan is proclaiming as of now a unilateral cease-fire in Darfur,' said Sudanese chief envoy Nafie Ali Nafie. 'We shall not be the first ones to fire arms.'...Chief U.N. negotiator Jan Eliasson and his African Union counterpart, Salim Ahmed Salim, told reporters several rebel leaders were expected to 'trickle in' during the next few days. While slow to start, the talks aimed to build a dialogue that could lead to a more solid peace deal, they said."
An editor here just wondered aloud if Boutros Boutros-Ghali ever went to Walla Walla, Wash.
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