Bad News

Two big, bad news items today:

A massacre of Tutsis in Burundi has threatened the entire D.R. Congo peace process, a fragile truce that has at least slowed the bleeding in a war involving 6 countries and ending 3,000,000 lives. In the fallout, Tutsi-dominated Rwanda has threatened to renew military action in the Congo.

In a much smaller theatre of unrest, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has OK'd the building of 1,000 new homes in the West Bank. Sharon's commitments to Israeli supremacy in the region and personal supremacy in Israel have never been questioned; his other commitments (including those he has made to the United States) are very much up in the air.