[VOA]

The decision to halt the investigation came when the U.N. Mission in Bosnia was reeling
from the disclosure that several of its police officers had been dismissed for sexual misconduct.

No surpise.
I heard an interview with a representative of a Christian Charity (Asian Hope)
on the Hugh Hewitt Show (www.newstalk870.com) here in LA.

The fellow said that it's pretty well acknowledged that the AIDS epidemic ravaging Cambodia
started when the disease was introduced by UN Peacekeepers. (And true, the rampant
prostitution in this broken country simply made sure it spread far and wide).

And for this and other brave and noble deeds, the UN got a Nobel Peace Prize this year, IIRC.

[RippleFire]

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[StopGlobalWhining]

The United Nations as the World's Peacekeeper

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money," warned Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the July/August 1995 issue of Foreign Affairs. Schlesinger had taken to the pages of the flagship journal of the Council on Foreign Relations to vindicate the dubious proposition that the United Nations military represents the thin blue line dividing peaceful civilization from savagery - in short, our planetary police.

But what happens when the planetary police run amok and become the agents of bloodshed? When local police abuse their power, the abused have avenues of redress. From what body can those abused by the planetary police seek justice? The escalating scandal of unpunished atrocities committed by UN "peacekeepers" illustrates that the planetary police are beyond accountability.

UN "peacekeepers" torture a Somali child over fire