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2003-05-13 East/Subsaharan Africa

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-05-13 10:32 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Like I blogged yesterday, give me 600 United States Marines and we'll see if the killing and looting stops. Kill 'em all and let God sort them out is perhaps the best tactic in this case. The U.N. is useless here.

Thank you, Belgium, once again, for your fine leadership during the colonial era.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-13 11:20:59|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-13 11:20:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I feel so much better now.

They're sending the French.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-13 11:54:23|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-13 11:54:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Congo's ambassador to South Africa, Bene M'Poko, said the UN troops were proving to be "useless".
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/2003/05/11/news/news02.asp

Read a great report the other day about how the UN troops kept getting conflicting orders from the UN. Unfortunately I can't find it on google.

Posted by Phil_B 2003-05-14 00:04:18|| 2003-05-14 00:04:18|| Front Page Top

#4 This stopped me dead - News agencies quoted UN diplomats as saying that the UN was seeking a "coalition of the willing" to make up a rapid reaction force and that France could take a leading role. http://allafrica.com/stories/200305130253.html

Is it possible the message is getting through to the UN? Or is this just a desperate attempt to do something that slows the UNs drift to irrelevance?

Posted by Phil_B 2003-05-14 00:24:43|| 2003-05-14 00:24:43|| Front Page Top

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