As the skies over Khartoum filled with the smoke of artillery blasts, and as American diplomats evacuated the Sudanese capital, yet another American-supported “transition to democracy” seemed to be ending in chaos and civil war.
Nothing about the collapse should come as a surprise. Judging from the success rate of American democracy efforts in the Middle East and North Africa in the past 15 years, a blind hamster has a better chance of building a nuclear submarine than the State Department had of orchestrating a democratic transition in Khartoum.