Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
The UN has peacekeepers acting as a buffer in the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel. Syrian rebels associated with Al Qaeda demanded UN troops from Fiji surrender, which they did<\/a>. The Fijian troops were taken hostage.<\/p>\n
Syrian rebels also demanded UN troops from the Philippines surrender, which they refused to do. The Syrian rebels attacked the Pilipinos, who retreated into Israel as Irish UN forces covered their retreat and Syrian government forces shelled the Syrian rebels to prevent pursuit.<\/p>\n
The captured Fijians remain captured. The Pilipinos want an investigation into why the UN commander from India ordered Phillipino and Fijian peacekeepers to surrender to terrorists<\/a>. Now the officer who refused to surrender to terrorists has been placed on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the problem with the UN peacekeeping idea in general. Nobody cares if the other country\u2019s guys get killed defending some worthless land in somebody else\u2019s back yard. It isn\u2019t our country so we\u2019re not going to let our guys die for it. But if yours do, well, that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n
Bad enough when it\u2019s UN troops. Worse if it\u2019s American troops. Let Israel off the leash and the problem will be solved in days, if not hours.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Peace” is not always synonymous with “absence of shooting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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