Could privatized Peacekeepers work in Darfur?

BICANIC: People who follow the Hot Zone know that these low-intensity conflict environments are very messy. When people are hacking off each other's arms and legs, no matter what kind of conflict we're in, there's no simple [solution]. Sometimes you have to deal with things in a way that the political process doesn't have an easy answer for.

Consider Sudan, for example. It's horrible over there and the UN is very much a broken instrument for solving those types of disputes. Is the correct answer to bring in a force of mercenaries to kill people who are killing others? I don't think that's the right answer, but the point is, is it worth considering? Hell yes, because it certainly worked in Sierra Leone.

These are the kinds of problems that I think are not easy for people to grapple with.

The reason I brought up Darfur is [due to] Blackwater (a private security firm), who is fairly infamous for a number of reasons, one of them being it was their four employees who were burned and hung from a bridge in Fallujah which for many people was a catalyst in at least finding out a little bit about the existence of these guys.

Cofer Black (Vice Chairman at Blackwater) has said that Blackwater is ready to go to Darfur and willing to do it.

Think about what that means.

The fact that a private company today — irrespective of who it is, this happens to be Blackwater — has the ideological desire, the ability, and the manpower and the money to pull off an operation like that is very scary. I don't know how many people are aware of that.