For Western soldiers to get in harm's way, you need national interests involved.  As Rwanda demonstrates, absent that demonstration not much will happen.  Our enthusiasm for the Iraq expedition with our special forces will evaporate PDQ with the first half dozen fatalities.  Our non-enthusiasm for the Mali peacekeeping venture, to be announced soon one is led to believe, will evaporate equally quickly given the same, God forbid, circumstances.  Arabs need to sort themselves out.  We have no role as the history over the past century should demonstrate.

Yes, it is appalling what is happening in Syria.  Fixing that won't be accomplished by Washington or Moscow, let alone the capital cities of the Second Division - London, Paris or, it is to laugh, Ottawa.