Humanitarian strike force pondered - Canada

[dArKeR]

Canada hopes to start building a coalition of countries that want to define when international action should be taken to prevent genocide in an attempt to overcome past United Nations failures to act decisively in places like Rwanda.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was scheduled to present a paper written by a group of experts on Monday on the issue at a summit meeting of 14 centre-left national leaders who support what is called the progressive governance movement.

"We have to develop the process to be able to intervene when it's needed and intervene without creating the impression that you are intervening for your own personal interest," Mr. Chrétien told a weekend news conference after attending a conference of centre-left politicians and experts in London before the summit meeting.

The 85-page document was written by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty after UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged world leaders three years ago to develop rules on when action should be taken to protect human rights and prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing and mass rape.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030713.wchre713/BNStory/National/

There's the problem. If Canada, France and Germany support this I'm in too. If The Bush Crime Family supports it it's only a mask for them to steal wealth and power and so I'm out. Everyone in the world knows what the GOP are! The only thing that keeps them hanging on is the corrput American media.


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[lcordero]

1. I'm completely out no matter who pushes it

EOM

[dArKeR]

4. Sometimes police officers are needed. It's when their superiors are

corrupt and have no interest except the interests of corporations who will rape any land is when you've got trouble.

The GOP has no morals. That's whats so funny is the American media plays them up are a moral party.

[glarius]

2. I saw a report about this on CBC or CTV..and Bill Clinton is a part of

this group also....

[mainer]

3. Canada is being a true leader

What better use for armed force, than to intervene in a humanitarian crisis? I find Chretien's idea both brilliant and forward-looking. How many thousands could have been saved in Rwanda or Liberia had such a process been in place?

I highly doubt Bush will go along with it.

[MetaTrope]

5. "Humanitarian" strike force?

:wow:

[scisyhp]

6. The only intervention policy which can be implemented

consistently and straightforwardly is a complete ban on any
intervention in internal affairs of sovereign nations. Anything
short of that can and will be used by the powers that be to promote
their commercial interests under the cover of "humanitarianism".
"Humanitarian intervention in failed states" should be more properly
called "imperialist counter-insurgency". The main goal, of course, is
to prevent massive property losses by the intervening powers'
resident firms.