A squad of Janjaweed go out to wipe out a non-Baggara village, kill the farmers, and rape and kill the women. On their way, they find themselves blocked by a regiment of blue-helmeted peace-keepers. The peace-keepers are well armed, which, to some, may seem like a horrible contradiction. But they constituted an imposing force. And the Janjaween squad knows full well that to go ahead with their intended mission, they're going to have to get through the regiment of blue-helmets first. They'll never make it. They decide to go home. Nobody fires a shot.

Every time they go out with the same intention, they encounter a group of blue-helmets, much larger and better armed than they are. The genocide stops. No more non-Baggara are killed. The peace is kept.

With an international military—or police—force, supplied by member nations and under the command of the U.N., no matter how large the aggressor force is, they would encounter a larger, better armed group ready to stop them. War would become impossible.

Other than a major change in human nature (not in the foreseeable future; let's be realistic), does anyone have a better idea? If so, let's hear it.

Don Firth