Originally Posted by
Load Toad
So what do you suggest we do?
- Stand idly by, watch as there are civilian atrocities, do nothing.
- Invade the country & stay there for years fighting various insurgencies.
- Arm the 'rebels', train them, find out later that some arms were used in atrocities, some have gone 'missing'.
In the past the UN response is to police the GREEN LINE.
As mentioned above, plinking tanks gave the rebels the chance to advance, stop plinking them and they retreat.
The best solution would be the creation of a Green Zone with any combattants of either side prohibited.
The problem would be just where to establish the zone boundary and that it would create a defacto partition of the country much like the 19th Century boundaries.