Originally Posted by Almighty Colin

Some interesting US (PIPA) poll results from July, 1994

61% favored contributing troops to a large UN force to "occupy the country and forcibly stop the killing."

62% thought genocide was being commited in Rwanda (25% said "don't know")

80% said that if the United Nations concluded that genocide was indeed being committed, the United States should participate in U.N. intervention to stop the genocide.