About once a week a feature appears in the New York Times documenting the most recent breakdown in progress toward a lasting peace settlement in the huge Darfur region of Sudan: a massacre of civilians in the southern Darfur city of Muhagiriya by Sudanese government forces and their paramilitary frontmen, the dreaded janjaweed nomads (October 17); and nonparticipation by several of the splintered rebel group leaders in the current talks between UN, African Union, Sudanese government, and Darfur…