Re: Tuffleyverse: UN

From: <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>

> From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@webone.com.au>
> > For those (like myself) who have some difficulty with the UN being
> > anything other than the "good guys", I respectfully submit the
following:
> >
> > http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,449436,00.html
>
> So the UN have been liberated by Donald "Free people are free to make
> mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things" Rumsfeld  ?
> ;-)

As any reply I'd make would be blatantly political and Off Topic, I will
maintain a dignified silence.

(Good Point BTW)

Shall we just say that the UN in 2190-something may indeed have
resemblances
regarding ignoring of growing threats to the (he says trying to keep it
non-controversial) League of Nations over Abyssinia in the 30s?

When it intervenes, possibly a bit more like UN behaviour in the Belgian
Congo
( see http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/united_nations_congo.htm )
rather
than its very successful and worthwhile behaviour in East Timor in
1999-2003.

Talking about the Congo, have a search on Operation Red Dargon / Dragon
Rouge.
It would make a great SG2 scenario. (The Simbas were Not Nice People in
the same
way that Uday Hussein and Idi Amin are Not Nice)
See http://members.aol.com/SamC130/menu3.html
" Some of the hostages later said they thought the Simba officers
intended to turn them over to the Belgians unharmed, but some of
the Simbas, who had been drinking and smoking Hemp all night the night
before, decided to take matters in their own hands. They shot
their own officers, then turned their guns on the hostages. They had
fired one volley, picking women and children as their targets,
and were preparing to fire another when the Red Berets showed up on the
scene. At the sight of the Belgians, the Simbas lost their
courage and ran"

Along with the Belgian Paras, but of rather different character where
Mike Hoare's Mercenaries.
'Nuff said.

Just have a read of http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v2/v2n3/congo.html
Seriously. The most unlikely happenings in the Tuffleyverse are
positively believable
and even staid in comparison with actual events.