The UN will most likely support this, so it will not be the US alone. Also it can help improve the US image in the UN - yeah there is oil in Sudan, but everyone agrees there is a genocide going on (we are not talking WMD). Another thing Africa needs - just like the middle east - is democracy... I do not think Sudan will be a democracy, but if Sudan or parts of Sudan is put in control of the UN, because Sudan is "pissing" on the UN rules, then it might shake up the other african countries...
It should be easy to win a war in Sudan (or rather fight down anyone who do not like UN peacekeepers)... Sudan airforce would probably last 1 day, their heavy divisions also a few days, and their foot soldiers/patrols would have to do PR terror to make any real effect. There is no need to occupied the whole country - just need to create safe zones, and put soldiers from the african league between the safe zones and the rest of Sudan.
If the US or UN does nothing, then the problem does not go away... it will only get worse, and the risk is that it might spread to other countries in the region.
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"Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man."
~Henry B. Adams (Historian) 1838-1918
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