Mov747
This is precisely why we should do it -
AFAIK one of the few sensible things that GW Bush, Esq. of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, DC has said since 11/9/01 is that the ideological battle between the West and Bin Laden's crew is that we disagree on the form of society.
The (modern liberal) west believes that there are certain universal values underpinning human decency - of which stopping genocide is one.
OTOH, Bin Laden believes that the best human society ever was in the Arabian desert in the 7th Century, and that we should return to that immediately if not sooner, slaughtering all who don't agree.
And protecting those who their co-religionists massacre would be morally right anyway - as was using Hercs to help in the Ethiopian famine, for example - and it's also great in policy terms by reaching out to the moderate Islamic world who see an entirely one-sided US / Western policy on Israel / Palestine and assuming that we're all rabidly anti-Islam.
See you in Dafur!!
S41