Though the new troops' rules of engagement are yet to be clarified, their arrival cannot come soon enough.
On Tuesday, Pakistan, which had been seen as among the most likely to send troops, ruled this out for the time being.Late last month, the dire security situation forced the last-minute postponement of a conference to choose an interim national parliament for Iraq.
For its part, Israel faces charges that it potentially breached international law in multiple areas of the conduct of its war, including the targeting of residential homes with precision, the excessive use of artillery in civilian areas, and the loosening of troops' rules of engagement such as the use of the Hannibal Protocol in Rafah.
A water cannon demonstration was also laid on but the use of troops was ruled out.
The episode highlighted the difficulties facing American officers under fire, as they are forced to balance using lethal force to protect their troops with rules restricting the use of firepower to prevent civilian deaths.
Drawing on the advice of Gen. Colin L. Powell, widely viewed as a potential secretary of state in a Bush administration, Mr. Bush is far more tentative about committing American troops and rules out their use for what he dismisses as nation building.
But more senior people in the UN's peacekeeping office, already failing to get enough troops into Darfur, rule that out.
And, as he pointed out an old barracks that housed Gurkha troops under British rule and is now occupied by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it's clear that he's read his Hong Kong history, too.
When Tibetans took to the streets in 1959 demanding an end to Chinese rule, troops crushed the revolt and thousands of protesters were killed.
Lee directed individual units' Cultural Sections to inform the division's troops of the rule.
