Why not call for a full-scale, non-consensual military intervention?
We would call for a full-scale military intervention if three conditions were met: • It is believed that such a force would likely protect civilians in Darfur • There is even a remote possibility that nations with the required resources would be willing to implement it, we would call for it. • The diplomatic and economic sanctions available have been attempted or it becomes clear they will not be sufficient. None of these conditions have been clearly met. At present, an aggressive military intervention would have to be “non-consensual” – that is, it would occur without the permission of the government of Sudan, which whether justified or not, amounts to an invasion. The most ambiguous case is the first: can a non-consensual intervention protect large numbers of civilians? Darfur is too large and too austere an environment to physically protect a large proportion of civilians around the clock. However there may be ways to use even a smaller force to keep civilians safer: For example, hi
