LIBERIA WATCH

The United States has offered a draft resolution to the UN about creating a multinational force to stabilize that country. The US role was sort of unspecified, however any commitment by the United States would be brief.

In the post that Blogger devoured last night, I advocated immediate American action, citing the British intervention in Sierra Leone that ended that civil war, and the recent French intervention in neighboring Ivory Coast, which may have quelled a brewing genocide.

An advance peacekeeping force from neighboring West African nations has arrived in Liberia.

Say what you will about "humanitarian" interventions. In 1994, the US and the world ignored Rwanda. One million were put to death in a 100 day period. That war spread into neighboring Dem. Rep. of Congo to cause what I've termed an "African Holocaust."

If the US, and the World ignores Liberia, imagine that chaos. Much like a stable Iraq could lead to a stable Middle East, a stable Liberia could lead to a stable West Africa.

The two regions are further similar. Both are oil-rich.

I say let's go. Let's roll and save these people.