Posted on 06/11/2004 12:51:47 AM PDT by JOAT
The Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations intends to help create a global peacekeeping force of more than 50,000 people over the next five to six years, senior US officials have said.
Officials said the initiative grew out of African requests for assistance in ending the wars that plague the continent.
"The centerpiece of this initiative will be a pledge by the G8 countries to train a certain number, we hope well in excess of 50,000 peacekeepers around the world, but beginning in Africa, over the next five or six years," said one of the officials, who spoke on condition that they not be identified.
They said that although the initiative would be launched in Africa, where the need was greatest, its scope was global.
"The idea is to train peacekeepers and equip them and enable them to get to where they're needed all over the world," one official said.
One of the officials said Italy was offering the use of a training center.
The Bush administration would seek $US660 million from Congress to spend over the next five years for training and equipment, the US officials said.
That $660 Million would be better spent on our own military, thanks.
As usual the US will pay AND Die for the Canadians, French, Germans and Japs
Why does it seem the more collectivist peacekeepers we have, the more war we end up with?
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