Obama shuns UN peacekeeping forces

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http://atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-141014.html



Obama shuns UN peacekeeping forces
By Brian Cloughley
Oct 14, '14

In his September 2009 address to the UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama candidly admitted that much international distrust of his country had been created because, among other things, "on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others."

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Bear in mind that when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, President Obama declared that "we must strengthen UN and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries." But what has been the result of all his years of resolve to strengthen international peacekeeping? How many of the 1,369,532 people in America's armed forces are serving in UN Peacekeeping Operations?

Thirty-two.

That rounds off the figure nicely, to a remaining 1,369,500 members of the US army, navy, air force and marines who are so many of them spread around the world in the cause of what Obama calls "strengthening international peacekeeping" and making an unholy mess of it.