For quite a long time US policy towards Sudan has been influenced to a large extent by lobby groups like the Black Caucus, the Evangelicals, various human rights NGOs and the professionals like career diplomats were more or less left in the cold.
This approach led to the domination of activists' mentality at the expense of professional one. One good example to mention was the decision to move the embassy from Khartoum to Nairobi on the grounds of security concerns, but in effect was a way to punish the Ingaz regime.
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