The UN should take over with Arab and African troops as part of a peacekeeping force, pending elections.
I think this is something that sounds worthwhile, but I am not sure how African troops from the area south of the Sahara would be received in any Arab North African state. The African Union peacekeeping troops from Burundi were made unwelcome in Somalia for this very reason and the racial divide that has only just been resolved in Sudan by the creation of two separate states of totally differing ethnicities, is another such example.
The Arab view of sub-Saharan peoples was demonstrated by the atrocities committed by the Arab military in the Darfur region of western Sudan against their own countrymen who were of sub-Saharan ethnicity.
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Despite what some people like to think, UK and US forces are NOT world Police there to sort every countries problems!
I totally agree with you on this matter. The US and UK definition of United Nations resolutions were seen in the Iraq conflict as being more to do with certain self interests. The USA saw Haliburton as a main beneficiancy of that conflict originally, as a reflection of the Repubican Party linkage to such multi-faceted American corporate giants. Of course, matters after the fall of Sadam Hussain proved far different to the vision put forward by the American military, with the total breakdown of all state functions, caused by the Americans not having a co-ordinated plan for the immediate period after their military intervention.
In the first Iraq war, France was a leading military presence, but it was noticeable that when it came to the second Iraq war, France sided with Germany in opposing the military campaign.