International Crisis Group has a new, alarming report on the conditions in Cote d'Ivoire. ECOWAS soldiers, stretched thinly throughout West Africa, are not sufficient to maintain peace operations. Kofi Annan has called for an upgrading of UN presence to a full peace keeping mission. French forces have had some troubles: there was a major confrontation with demonstrators. The worsening situation is Cote d'Ivoire, affected by the crises in Liberia and Sierra Leone, may lead to a collapse in all three states. Bush needs to move the marines from the ships sitting off the Liberia coast and place them on the continent. He must coordinate with ECOWAS, Britain and France in order to deal with these problems on a regional level.