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Wesley Clark: Why We Should Care About Darfur [11min]

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark -- also a one-time contender for the Democratic Party nomination in 2004 -- discusses the ongoing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, why the international community has been slow to react and why Americans should care about the ethnic and religious strife that has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and countless refugees.
Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"