Originally posted by Toad
Explain the whole Rwandan thing for me then please. Maj. Gen. Romeo Dallaire sent a fax to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at UN headquarters in New York informing officials that a genocide was being planned. Dallaire outlined the genocide plans in considerable detail and asked permission to take preventive action.
The same day, he received a reply from the UN telling him that he had no mandate to act.
Why send soldiers? What's the point? Window dressing?
They figure about 800,000 Rwandans died while several thousand UN "Peacekeepers" were there.
Explain the Dutch Batt to me again then. About 7,000 Muslim males were killed in Srebrenica... well, massacred by the Bosnian Serb army. While the "Peacekeepers" stood by.
You send a bunch of soldiers with guns, after they are invited but if the killing goes on these soldiers are expected to.... withdraw?
Is that how it works?
If so, then like I said, quit sending soldiers. There's no point to it.
Or maybe do the same thing but call the troops "UN Powerless Observers of Slaughter". At least it'd be an honest name.
Best of all... don't send troops. Face it, if all you are going to do is oversee a ceasefire or peace treaty as a neutral third party and report to both sides on what they see then you don't need soldiers. Sissies and treehugging politically correct ladies will serve just as well in that role.
The UN is the most political , corrupt organization that I have ever seen. I work as a IT business consultant and have worked at the UN head quarters in New York City and at the HQ in Belgium. The purpose of the UN is not to stop war or save life. What I have come to realize is that the only purpose of the UN is to redistribute wealth.
I make that informed opinion based on my business experience gathered over the last 30 years and partly on my military experience from the late 1960’s, I was a member of the US Army’s 5th Special Forces and received training and practical experience on counter insurgency, Jungle war fare and terrorist tactics used to influence the local population.
As a business analyst I have reviewed the systems employed by the United Nations to both employee it’s people and pay it’s vendors. As different world events have been responded to by the UN with either military police actions, or relief in the form of food or healthcare and most of the time involving all three. This is accomplished by hiring local vendors to assist and provide services, services such as hotel rooms or other lodging , transportation for health care works or food stocks brought in by the UN. Of course there is always the need to secure storage space. The UN buys these services from the local vendors, and as the audits which have come to light in the last few years show, sometimes the owners of the vendor services companies are the relatives of the UN workers that make the selections of the vendor services. Or more likely just corrupt government officials lining their pockets by taking kickbacks and bribes.
The Original purpose of the UN has been lost along the way. I am 57 years old and in my life time I know of no war that the UN has ever prevented, I know of no world hunger that the UN has cured. I know of no world health problem that the UN has resolved. I know that collectively billions of dollars are redistributed through their business systems on an annual basis. And I have little faith that the UN can get the aid to where it is needed.
The UN should be abolished.
