GENERAL Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged to take Sudan to civilian rule, but after going to war last month with his former partner in a military coup, that looks like a distant promise. As his warplanes rain strikes on the capital and his troops battle the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of rival general Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, Burhan has shown no inclination to compromise. "There is no other option but the military solution," he said five days into fighting that he was believed to be initially directing from a presidential guesthouse near the airport. The war comes after Burhan…