We need to petition to have United Nations Emergency Forces (UNEF) in Egypt.  Peacekeeping troops may not seem like much, but I think it could have a major impact in Egypt's future and in preventing all out civil war. 

Consider a passage from An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by the manager of the Hotel Mille Collines in Rwanda during the genocide (chpt 5). This text is from the very beginning, when the plane of the President of Rwanda was shot down, before the genocide actually began. A small force of UN troops was present in Rwanda during that time: 

"The killing could have ended right there. It all could have stopped quite easily at this early stage with just a small fraction of the police department of any midsized American city. Rwandans have always shown respect to authority figures - it is part of our national personality - and a brigade of international soldiers would have found it surprisingly easy to keep order on the streets of Kigali if they had had the guts to show they meant business about saving lives. But they didn't. 

..."But they [the UN soldiers] were ill equipped and under strict orders from UN headquarters not to fire their weapons except in defense of themselves. 'Do not fire unless fired upon' was the mantra. The recent U.S. disaster in Somalia, in which 18 Army Rangers had been killed by street mobs, had made the idea of 'African peacekeeping' a poisonous concept in the minds of many diplomats in the American State Department and the UN Security Counsil. They saw nothing to gain from it and everything to lose." 

How many lives will be lost this time in the name of diplomacy and the spirit of cowardice of the United States and the UN?