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This is welcome vindication for those, particularly Barack Obama and his special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, who view the promotion of elections as a cornerstone of Western foreign policy. The belief that liberty and equality "are chiefly to be found in democracy," as Aristotle wrote, is thousands of years old. But Western faith in the ballot box can sometimes seem blind and naive. Elections in Iraq, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe have been accompanied by deadly violence. In 2006, an election in the Palestinian territories brought to power the Islamist militants of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organization...
...White House invited Amjadi, along with Save Darfur’s Executive Director Jerry Fowler, to meet Tuesday afternoon with Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration and Samantha Power, the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs...
...invitation came after Gration could not attend the “Pledge 2 Protect” conference on Sudan, convened by STAND last weekend...
STAND members were asked to vote online to select five questions Amjadi would ask Gration and Power...
...disagreement between Gration and Rice is symbolic of the fundamental fissure that has paralyzed the Administration's Sudan policy. "There is a war inside the Obama Administration," says Andrew Natsios, the special envoy to Sudan under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2007. "Gration, with the support of [Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs] Johnnie Carson and [National Security Adviser] Jim Jones are all on one side wanting to use diplomacy to address Sudan's problems. On the other side, you have Susan Rice, Samantha Power, with the former co-chair of the Enough Project, Gayle Smith...