RE: Re: Mercs as Peacekeepers

From:  KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de (K.H.Ranitzsch)
>Still another point. Some of the debacles of UN mission have been
blamed on
the fact that the security council sent in forces recklessly, reacting
to
public pressure to do something about a situation, but not providing
enough
forces and giving them silly rules of engagement. This could get worse
if
the UN security council has a force it can use freely.

Right.	How do you pressure the UN to act justly?  You can't embargo it,
you can't bomb it, you can't deny it Most Favored Nation, you can't
support freedom fighters who want to overthrow it.

>Any state that is permanently or temporarily a member of the security
council has to provide a contingent. Command is centralized under a UN
staff. This would put a brake on reckless use of that force, because the
politicians are sending some of their own nation's people into harms
way.

Doesn't that last sentence seem a little questionable?

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