HEART OF DARFUR. Condoleeza Rice is angry. Sudanese security guards harassed her entourage during her recent visit with Sudanese president Omar El-Bashir. "They have no right to push and shove," she insisted, according to Anne Gearan of AP.

Meanwhile, El-Bashir's government continues to be implicated in the rape and torture and slaughter and displacement of millions of Sudanese. The recent thuggery of El-Bashir's guards, so upsetting to Secretary of State Rice, is a merely "the tip of the iceberg" of Sudanese outrages as cited in this Village Voice article by Nat Hentoff, who calls El-Bashir "Sudan's maximum murderer." Hentoff invokes memories of Rwanda and Nazi Germany in an effort to stir readers to pressure the U.S. government to do more to stop the Sudanese outrages.

But maybe the most effective message is the one that El-Bashir's thugs gave Rice personally. Perhaps now that she has had a mere taste of Sudanese "governance," the Bush administration will take more decisive actions to stop the greater atrocities.