Is the African Union (AU) able to protect an area the size of France withonly 7000 men?
The most conservative estimates are 20,000[-30,000] troops with a Chapter 7 mandate to use force. Sudan Reeves has the most authoritative analysis. Eric Reeves is a Smith College professor dying of cancer. He has mortgaged his house so he can afford to spend what days and months he has left keeping Darfur on the world stage through his authoritative studies and articles. 12. Do you think the UN is helping, hurting, or remaining neutral on Darfur? Please explain. There is no UN. Actually, there is no US Government in Washington. There is only we the people of the world and the United States. I am trying to be neither cute, trite nor mystical in this response. We the people of the world are the government, whether or not we are in a democracy. This was Gandhi’s great genius. If the people exert their will with enough resolution the Government must follow. The streets of the world are empty of people delivering their unmistakable mandate to their officials to see that 20-30,000 UN peaceke
