Darfur: Should the U.S. Send Peacekeeping Troops?

I think if the United Nations, NATO and the African Union are not helping Darfur, the United States should. Yes, our relations with other countries might diminish, but we have to think of the real reason we would be in Darfur. The mass killings of citizens by the janjaweed helps give this atrocity a "genocide" rating, and if the United Nations isn't going to step in, we can't just be an innocent bystander. I don't think the U.S. always has a right to be the "global police", but when innocent people are being killed and nobody will stop it, it's time to intervene.

This intervention, like mentioned in the reading, doesn't have to be an air strike, but rather funding to peacekeeping groups (African Union peacekeepers) and "to lobby the United Nations". Something needs to be done.