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2006-02-25 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Steve White 2006-02-25 14:13|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 excuse me while I go throw up. Can you imagine the outcry if it was the US military instead of the UN?

The sooner we kick the evil UN off our soil, the better. Kill it. Nothing good has come from it. Nothing.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-25 14:57|| 2006-02-25 14:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Zero is the correct number. Saying it will take time isn't good enough.

Posted by SPoD 2006-02-25 15:10|| 2006-02-25 15:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Do they have an empirical breakdown of complaint by country? I'd like to know who are the most accused entities. Was the majority of abuses from the Congo op?

Most of these countries don't know how to train or what it means to be a professional warrior. Discipline & Spirit are two key ingredients. Raping women and children doesn't qualify you for it either....just a bunch of third-string blue-headed clowns in tree suits.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-02-25 15:20|| 2006-02-25 15:20|| Front Page Top

#4 IIRC, last year I linked an article about an australian soldier having to be evacuated from Timor after he denounced to the UN hierarchy a jordanian "peacekeeper" having forced a young local boy to perform oral sex on him; his safety couldn't be assured, so he had to be evacuated.

I'm pretty sure the peacekeepers from non-western (or at least non-western standards) militaries may be a real danger to the population they're supposed to guard, without even acknowledging their potential bias (such as muslim troops aiding albanian kosovars against the serb minority supposedly under their protection).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-25 15:42|| 2006-02-25 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Most of these countries don't know how to train or what it means to be a professional warrior. Discipline & Spirit are two key ingredients. Raping women and children doesn't qualify you for it either..

That's a 'good to go' Broadhead.

Posted by lotp 2006-02-25 15:58|| 2006-02-25 15:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Raping women and children... must be one of those Arab / Muslim cultural things I keep hearing I should 'respect'....

Ah.... no!

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-25 16:04|| 2006-02-25 16:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Broadhead6, there was a pretty nasty case in the AO involving "a senior French official," but he wasn't a peacekeeper (even nominally), so he doesn't count I guess.

The ones I've heard about were Jordanian (the case with the Aussie -- which ended up with Australian Steyr AUGs pointed in the general direction of Jordanian M16s and vice versa) and Pakistani.

Posted by Edward Yee 2006-02-25 18:20|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2006-02-25 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The Congo op may be "infamous" in this regard, but I think that there were accusations thereof in Liberia as well.

Posted by Edward Yee 2006-02-25 18:21|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2006-02-25 18:21|| Front Page Top

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