"U.S. cedes to U.N. demand to delay Sudan sanctions"

That was the headline on a news report Reuters for this story.
A quote in the story read:

"As a courtesy to the (U.N.) Secretary General, we delayed," Natsios told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." I am going to give him the four weeks,"

Courtesies should have ended a long time ago. More time for "diplomacy" equals more deaths, pain, and bloodshed. If the Sudan was rich with oil there would be no delay.
As Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, put it:

"If I was sitting in those camps I could not stand the counsels of patience and delay,"

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chimed in with:

"People are bleeding to death now....it is genocide, we should act now"

While it's great that the United States is getting involved in this situation, it knew of this genocide long ago. Proof of the knowledge of a genocide occurring can be found here. While Secretary of State of the U.S., Colin Powell made this statement on September 9, 2004 to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

"When we reviewed the evidence compiled by our team, along with other information available to the State Department, we concluded that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the Government of Sudan and the jinjaweid bear
responsibility -- and genocide may still be occurring...."

So yeah, there will be no pats on the back for doing something now that should have been done years ago.