Ben Cardin actually said...

I agree with your assessment, but if the leaders are not going to agree to it, it is hard to mobilize the people.

I think that is just one aspect of this.

The question is whether the youngest country in the world can survive, and I think I am not overstating our concerns.

You add that all up, if South Sudan is not a failed state, it is certainly a state which has badly failed its people.