Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson arrives in Congo and, trying to calculate the number of deaths over the past decade, writes, "We know that the events are approaching a holocaust scale when the margin of error is measured in millions." Looking forward, he writes that "Security in eastern Congo is the prerequisite for political progress." He sees one solution: "a capable, hard-hitting European military force, supported by the United States, which would stabilize the situation, give the [U.N.] peacekeeping force some breathing room and put a limit on [rebel leader] Nkunda's ambitions." Sadly, such a step seems "unlikely." Britain and Germany in particular have opposed the deployment of such a force.
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