She writes:

The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling. Millions of people have been displaced; hundreds of thousands have been killed and, at the center of it all stands Sudanese President Omar al Bashir who has been indicted on seven counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity.

One of those crimes, in fact, is the use of rape as a weapon of genocide, which is the laws first use.

Jolie also talks about what continues to happen at the world's attention ebbs and flows from Darfur.

More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now. Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed.

The problem, of course, is that we haven't seen fit to do terribly much about it.

The U.N. Security Council, Jolie says, can choose to intervene after the prosecutor's presentation, or it can sit idly by and allow Bashir to continue killing his own people and thumbing his nose at the international community.

According to the UN Charter, the Security Council exists "to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security." If the results of the Darfur investigation which they ordered don't merit their active engagement, what does?

Today the Security Council member states will be faced with a simple decision - to embrace impunity or to end it.

As they are considering Bashir's fate they are also considering their own.

They are also considering the future of all the residents of Darfur, who Bashir continues to attempt to exterminate.

The Case Against Omar Al Bashir [Time]

Earlier: Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide

Bristol Palin and Sarah Palin gave interviews to Fox's Greta Von Susteren in which Bristol not only said abstinence is good but unrealistic and that women should wait until their late twenties to give birth but Sarah said something that I actually agreed with:

"Get beyond the ideal of abstinence," the 44 year old, new grandmother said. "Hey, life happens."

And I don't even think she meant it like "conceiving a baby" but as in "people are still having sex."

Hey, it's a start!

Anyway, Sarah is having budget problems in Alaska because of falling oil prices, so she's facing an unhappy economic downturn just like Japan, but at least she isn't giving drunken press conferences about it, like Japan's now-former Finance Minister did. Hillary Clinton is still putting Ms. Palin to shame though, meeting with Japanese families whose loved ones were abducted by North Korea and warning the countryabout launching yet another missile because, apparently, the North Koreans saw Team America: World Police and thought it a good model of behavior.

In other news, Hillary's Senatorial replacement, Kirsten Gillibrand, was keeping rifles under her bed for "protection" in upstate New York, but she's moved them following an uproar. (She's got young kids.) The guy who appointed her, Governor David Paterson, is now polling in the gutter, trailing New York Attorney General Andrew "Shucking And Jiving Is Not A Racist Term" Cuomo in a potential 2010 primary match up by 50 percent. Great.

In international news, Barack Obama isn't set to make any decisions about sending more troops to Afghanistan right away but, before he does, he may let cameras back into Dover Air Force Base to capture the coffin ceremonies that the first and then second President Bush banned so as not to have another Vietnam. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is totally about to be indicted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes which is opposed by everyone in the world including most Arab countries, Islamic countries, African countries, developing countries and China. Hey, did you know they have oil there?