Corzine blogging on Darfur at The Huffington Post

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How to Stop a Genocide

I just saw first-hand how terrorists are made. Mix together a genocide, a civil war, oil, a failed state, and non-intervention by the global community until it is too late. And voila.

My name is Jon Corzine, and I’m one of the two US Senators who represents the state of New Jersey. Most people don’t really know what a Senator does. In my case, among other things, I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to prevent this country from being attacked. My state was hit hard by 9/11, and preventing another catastrophe is paramount in my job description.

Last week, I went to Iraq and Chad. I visited troops in Iraq from my home state. These soldiers are professionals in the most magnificant sense of the word, prepared to give their lives to protect our country.http://tinyurl.com/drjgt

But why did I also go to Chad? Well, because while Iraq is a war-zone, Chad is right next to another war-zone, the Western regions of Darfur in the Sudan, where genocide is tearing a country apart and creating the conditions for a new failed state and breeding ground for terrorists.

Here are a couple of interesting facts about the Sudan.

More: http://tinyurl.com/drjgt