The West Wants to Take the Rest of Sudan's Oil Less than a year ago, Sudan was split in two after decades of U.S. support for the secessionist South. Newly independent and deeply impoverished South Sudan has now seized much of what remains of the North's oil fields. The South refuses to return to its borders, despite widespread international denunciation -- a boldness that is inconceivable without the connivance of the United States. The campaign to chop away more territory from the African nation of Sudan is in full swing. South Sudan, which comprised one-third of the country until becoming independent, last year, seized the oil town of Heglig on the northern Sudan side of the border and is refusing international calls to withdraw. The region around Heglig contains half of Sudan's remaining oil fields. Most of the country's oil went to South Sudan when the country was partitioned. But the Heglig fields indisputably belong to northern Sudan, having been awarded to the Khartoum government by a Permanent Court, in 2009. Nevertheless, South Sudan refuses to return to its borders, and its generals are talking about marching all the way to Khartoum. The European Union describes the South Sudanese seizure of northern territory as "completely unacceptable," and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed his "grave concerns" directly to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. But President Kiir, who wears a signature cowboy hat given to him by President Bush in 2006, shouted back at the UN chief, "I am not