The Council on Foreign Relations has a report (available here with other resources and information) urging the United States to push for an expanded peacekeeping mandate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Whether now is a time when the United States will be inclined to engage in the Congo or anyplace else in which the self interest is not clear is another matter entirely. But given the United States’ historic role in destabilizing the Congo/Zaire for dubious Cold War positioning, pressing for serious UN action is the least Washington can do.
