@Eggie The UN does not have its own troops, it needs agreement from the countries. Why didn’t the African Union intervene? And the US and the UN are very distinct from each other. And really, why would it be the jurisdiction of the UN to intervene in internal ethnic strife?
And “They could have sent in the marines and other soldiers to fight… shows a lack of understanding of the size of a force to quell violence which was all over the country, in a terrain that is mostly jungle. It would have taken tens of thousands of soldiers to effectively intervene. And you’d risk US lives for that?