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Originally posted by Dragonlich
What is there to be gained from sending troops into Sudan? It's basically a low-level civil war there. Foreign troops will either have to do nothing (peacekeepers), and be useless; or they have to actively fight any and all armed groups (peace enforcers), and be open to a world of dead and wounded, and a lot of criticism for "human rights violations".
The situation in Iraq was different, in that there was a central government doing the killing. In Sudan it's random groups of people, blending into the population as a whole...
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Agreed. In addition, the problems in Sudan are internally generated and are not a threat to our national security. Tragic as they are, we have no ability solve a civil war - unless we are willing to engage in imperialism and enforce martial law. Such an extreme solution would be temporary at best - and not at all palatable.