SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Institute – In Sudan, the Masks Come Off After a Military Coup
Arguing that “the crisis for the Sudanese people is also a crisis for American diplomacy,” Alberto Fernandez, the former US chief of mission in Sudan, calls for the US to openly take a hard and clear line against the rule of Sudanese military strongmen (and their civilian enablers once their identity becomes known).
Fernandez warns that the US may face the “potential trap” of Sudan’s military leaders dangling the prospect of a “substitute civilian puppet government,” and thereby “giving the regime vital breathing space time and time again,” by making an “outrageous decision…and the international community would engage it in an effort to make the decision less bad,” culminating in a “focus on ‘process’ over actual results.”