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Yes I think you may be missing the tactic...

You know they have been on a great push to get other countries to send troops to help rebuild Iraq with little response. It may be a smart international move to call it "peacekeeping" to get more countries to sign up and save US alot of lives and money. We do not have enough troops and Rumsfeld unquestionably knows that. This is more about recruitment for international support and also a peaceful way to get the world to reevalute the UN's ineffective roll...

OK, fair enough - then why are we now being asked by the UN to consider participation in the Congo, too? To be a peacekeeping force, you have to have the one operative word: force. Who has that? The guys in the blue helmets don't seem to have made a dent in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda -or anywhere else I can think of where they've been deployed. The world can't have it both ways. The UN has to quit calling us the bullying superpower imperialists and then run to us when everyone else seems to be impotent and there are no other options. We can't spread ourselves around the world forever, and it's obvious that other countries give great lip service, but no cash, and no effective enforcement.