According to the Associated Press, President Bush will ask the United Nations to do something about the madness in Sudan next week: White House to Request U.N. Aid in Sudan.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will ask the United Nations next week to deal with what the United States considers an increasingly troubling situation in western Sudan, a senior State Department official said Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people will die this summer unless the Sudanese government stops the violence in the Darfur region, admits outside inspectors and lets relief supplies into the area, the official said.

More than a year of fighting in the sprawling region along the border with Chad has displaced almost 1 million people and led to a major humanitarian crisis.

The Bush administration plans to accelerate pressure on President Omar el-Bashir’s government, but European and Arab governments are not inclined to support that strategy, the official said in a briefing under rules that barred identifying him by name.

I hope W’s expectations are low.