Hey, don’t forget to add Liberia to your list of bloody civil wars which the UN did nothing about, and which the US did (even if belatedly.)

If you have a chance the Discovery Times channel has a documentary about the Liberian situation and how it unfolded, as viewed by a documentarian, who was with the rebels as they advanced on the capital.

http://times.discovery.com/convergence/liberia/liberia.html

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As far as indignation goes, I’m going to give Kristof the benefit of the doubt on this one. I assume he means we should use the energy of our indignation to contact our representatives and raise holy hell that more should be done.

Of course, for those who oppose unilateral American action, what course of action could they support. Send more “observers”? How about they put-up-or-shut-up, as I’ve heard from them everytime it comes to the use of military force Because I did not have the foresight in my teens to join the Armed Forces but would gladly do so now. Not my fault I’m 40 and they wont take me (which makes me a chicken-hawk, of course).

Have Peace Corp volunteers increased since 9/11??? If not why not?

For the rest of us, we should not simply throw the hot potatoe to the UN, because we know what they will do (TALK), and what they wont do (STOP THE KILLING.)

So while being smug about knowing the true state of things (or the truer state of things) may bring a sort of satisfaction, I’d rather we did something about the problem, and then slap each other on the backs. Knowing that we did the right thing at the right time.