Relax, guys.
The newly emerging powerhouse nations will volunteer to lead the UN peacekeeping forces into Gaza.
Because of previous poor performance as the world's cop, US forces will be unable to attend, but will cheer enthusiastically for the "Blue Berets" from the sidelines.
Preliminary estimates are that this operation shouldn't take but a few months. It is predicted that both Israelis and Palestinians will soon be holding joint picnics at the Wailing Wall, singing "Kumbyah, my lord, Kumbyah" and Coke's famous "I'd like to teach the world to sing". With this, the problem is solved and in the immortal words of Billy Boy, the troops "should be home by Christmas."
Unfortunately, the Blue Berets will only get to stay home for the actual holiday week, as they are also needed in Sudan.
As you all know, in 1989, a coup brought a radical regime to Sudan, an Iranian-style theocracy led by Lt. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Sheik Hassan al-Turabi, head of the National Islamic Front (NIF). The regime used the deepening crisis caused by the civil war as the pretext for decreeing martial law.
Armed to the hilt by Iran, Iraq, China, and others, Khartoum declared a jihad against the south. The result has been the escalation of one of our century's greatest human tragedies. No southerner, it seems, has been exempt from its horrors. Women have been raped by the tens of thousands, their children torn from their arms and compelled to convert to Islam. Young men have been kidnapped and forced to fight against loved ones. Entire villages and towns have been burned to the ground, their people burned alive or taken into slavery.
An estimated two million people, mostly civilians, have died in Sudan and four million have been displaced in the past 17 years as the result of civil war. Primary responsibility for this devastation belongs to the Sudanese government, a military regime based in the north. The principal victims include the Dinka and Nuer peoples in southern Sudan and the Nuba of central Sudan.
Unfortunately, once again (due to poor past performance), US troops will be forced to sit this one out.
Go, Blue Berets, GO!
