Where's a link to the evidence of this?! If true, this is a very bad thing. Our defense spending should be fer OUR guys only!!
Git the US Outta the UN!!
Git the UN Outta the US!!
FReegards...MUD
How long will it be once we begin direct funding of a UN standing army the our individual state national guard units are turned over to the UN? Then the reserves. Then your local law enforcement.
Perhaps then we will get our border patrol working right?
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This is just rumor, right?
Try post 48 on this thread.
There is mention of this in this from Voice of America News.
Sorry, I have lost my html cheat sheet and can't remember how to make hyperlink. Been awhile (sigh).
I just noticed that this is in chat? Things haven't changed, it appears.
http://www.voanews.com/EnglishtoAfrica/article.cfm?objectID=30C6E799-D712-423D-ABB97DEA456C576E
Will The G8 Peacekeeping Plan Succeed?
Joe De Capua
Washington
16 Jun 2004, 15:52 UTC
Snip: G-8 leaders say while “the number of peace support operations continues to grow…there is a lack of well-trained and equipped units able to respond to these increased demands.” As a result, they announced an “action plan to bring stability and security to troubled regions.” Besides additional troops, the plan calls for a “clearinghouse to exchange information and coordinate efforts to enhance peace operations; developing transportation and logistics support; and establishing a Gendarme Center of Excellence in Italy” for training. At the recent Sea Island Summit G-8 leaders proposed expanding global peacekeeping capabilities, with a particular focus on Africa. The plan calls for training and equipping 75-thousand troops by the year 2010. However, a top military analyst says the plan faces a number of problems.
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Mr. Heyman says the first problem is a lack of money."The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations is always under the most terrible financial pressures. And there is never enough money because the Department of Peacekeeping Operations is always dependent upon donor contributions. Now, the second major problem is the quality and the standard of the troops that are assigned to UN peacekeeping operations. Now, it’s very, very difficult for people in America or in the West just to realize the low standard of some of the contingents that appear for United Nations peacekeeping operations. We have seen in the past soldiers arriving with no weapons and no uniforms, with only a minimal standard of training. With the pay for those soldiers going into the coffers of corrupt politicians at home. Now there are some very, very good nations of course who can always be relied upon to produce troops for United Nations operations and literally at the drop of a hat. You think of Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, India. But they are the mainstay of UN operations and there just aren’t enough of those good troops around," he says.
As for the problem of a lack of funding, the Bush Administration will ask Congress for $660 million over the next five years to help fund the project. But Mr. Heyman says much more money is needed for the plan to succeed.
"I mean we’re talking there about $110 million a year. Generally speaking, deploying a United Nations soldier on the ground is going to cost you at least $60,000 a year. Now I haven’t worked out the figure that probably is necessary because that would take some time, but we’re talking about billions of dollars being required here. In the low billions, but we’re talking about billions, not millions," he says.