human rights?

[Feekee]

I am a newb to foreign policy, but i cannot get enough of it. I have been reading extensively(as much as I can out side of class..business major) Chomsky, McNamara, Rees...and I was wondering what people think we should be doing worldwide in regards to humanitarian intervention.
As much as I like to think that we have the responsibility to intervene into horrific and unimaginable human rights abuses...how can anyone possiblely intervene successfully? I hear it all the time, that someone should stop it? Who pays the bill to arm, equip, feed, etc. the intervening force? Also...how do you really win a fight like this? LIt is not a peacekeeping mission, it is certainly an invasion. Then you have to deal with the internal politics of racial hatred. We cannot forget the debacle in Somalia and Iraq where the goal is to stop the atrocity. So I think that we should not be intervening (unilaterallly) at all. If we are to be the "world police" as we are apt to believe, we should be acting mulitlatterally with the cooperation and will of other nations. But again how can you quell the racial hatred amongst peoples that have been at war for centuries? you cant walk in and hand them a ballot box and say everything will be alright.