Originally Posted by pgardn

Haunted by their experiences in Bosnia in the 1990’s, when their forces were unable to stop widespread ethnic killing, European governments are insisting upon clarifying the chain of command and rules of engagement before plunging into the even greater complexities of the Middle East.

“In the past, when peacekeeping missions were not properly defined, we’ve seen major failures,’’ a spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, Agnès Romatet-Espagne, said Sunday. “There are the bad memories of Bosnia. This time we want the answers beforehand, so we don’t come to the problems when they have happened.’’



Well thanks for letting us know now that Europe committed all these troops and now is backing out. Worthless... honestly. Bosnia got solved by the US basically bombing the holy crap out of the Serbs. And of course the Europeans wanted US troops in their own back yard for this particular event.

Sickening.
So you see why UN resolutions are worthless and why Israel gets 13-1 votes. Folks it is very clear that these "peace" missions require the use of force like it or not. We sent in 120,000 troops to Iraq to find WMD's. We found nothing cause they were not there. And then we say ok we are here lets get rid of Saddam.

We needed 350,000 troops to do the job in the first place. I hate war and I hate seeing people die but the hammer has to come down in order not extend the death toll of innocent lives caused by chaos when the rule of law breaks down. It is very clear that overwhelming force can actually save lives. Sad but true. Ah just leave all these dictators in place, they prevent all the ethnic hatred from coming out by making everyone hate them. What a mess.