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Originally Posted by somerfrost
There is a simple truth here...the UN will not solve the problem for many reasons...most already detailed here. China COULD help a great deal but won't. The US is the ONLY force on this planet capable of ending the genocide...but it will take long-term involvement and will cost American lives. We SHOULD do it...it is the right thing to do! But what politician will support extensive US involvement? The American public has shown twice in the last 50 years that when there isn't an "easy, quick fix" there is no desire to "stay the course". Nobody wants to see young American men and women die, I know what it's like to be in a strange land with folks trying to kill you but frankly, we are the only "Super Power" left and with that power comes a responsibility not to sit on our hands while tens of thousands of innocent people are butchered...I've heard all the "it's not our problem" rhetoric...but these are our brothers and sisters being slaughtered and, yes...we are our brother's keeper!
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There is nothing that the US could do. I love when people make these generalizations about what we could do without one single solid idea. Economic santions dont work there because they have no exports except oil and we dont get any from there. The country is too big and diverse for us to take over and monitor especially when all sides are going to be resentful of us after we rescue/police them. The Chinese are not going to let us go and shut off their oil production plants. It will only serve to become another costly occupation in a place where nothing will change after we leave. Sad but true.