The operation set off a huge riot here in the capital, where citizens are already angry over outside intervention.
French opponents of the treaty protested angrily over foreign intervention in a French internal matter.
Then left the company because of concerns over political intervention.
Senator Mitchell said his interest in moving on the issue was heightened by the week's debate over intervention in various countries.
The military stand-off inside Libya is matched by paralysis outside the country over military intervention.
"I am greatly concerned over uncontrolled intervention of money into Russia," he said.
But that night, he delivered a televised speech that played to the deep resentment over foreign intervention in Congo's affairs.
He continued the restraint over intervention in other countries"affairs that had marked US policy ever since Vietnam.
We should not think of foreign aid in a vacuum, but as one policy alternative - one immensely preferred, for human reasons, over armed intervention.
The white militia assumed defensive positions out of concern over possible intervention from federal troops.