Amos, I just turned off CNN. The report I just finished watching was of the anarchy in Basra, where British troops have holed up. And I mean holed up literally.

The camera followed an Iraqi business/community leader up to the very well insulated gate of well secured compound of some sort. The gate was high, had what looked to be like a bullet proof sort of covering hanging on it. A British soldier, obviously a grunt, finally opens the gate a crack--he is in full uniform, helmet, weapon in hand. He tells the Iraqi business/community leader, who has gone to the British troops to seek help in bringing the violence and looting under control because there is a vacuum without any police force.
He is told that there is nothing the British troops are willing to do to stop the violence, because it isn't their mission to act as peacekeepers.

Perhaps you have been living under a Mudcat rock for the last couple of decades, Amos. Have you never heard of UN peacekeepers? They are badly needed. Desperately needed. As the Brits have now made abundantly clear.

Also, the UN & NGO humanitarian organizations need to be brought in, and the supply routes for humanitarian aid need to secured, and guarded by the Anglo American troops.