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Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.