Members of our Congress, and activists throughout the country, urged -- for quite a while -- the U.S. to take a more serious, focused interest in the crisis in the Sudan.

Now the Sudan has fallen off the pages of U.S. newspapers and is hardly ever mentioned by anyone on any television program.  (Alas, it was fashionable for a while to deplore their plight, then was forgotten about ... and i found it so ironic that it was a New Orleans paper, that's been covering so much tragedy and destruction in its own city, that published Egelund's statement.