No Peace, Now No Peacekeepers

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/weekinreview/28TYLE.html?ex=1065326400&en=5ffaf2b958caad87&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

AGHDAD, Iraq — The decision by the Bush administration to seek Turkish, Indian and Pakistani troops for peacekeeping in Iraq has reached what many Iraqi political figures knew from the outset would be its final destination: the department of ideas whose time has not come. "We do not want Turkish troops in Iraq," said a Kurdish member of Iraq's Governing Council last week. His sentiments were shared not only by fellow Kurds, whose frustrated national ambitions make for relations of mutual mistrust with the Turks. Some non-Kurdish members of the council also wonder how Iraq's other neighbors, particularly Iran, might react if Turkey got even a toehold in the territory of their oil-rich neighbor.

India and Pakistan — the other foreign candidates that Washington was hoping would send enough troops to relieve the strain on American armed forces — conjured an even more delicate problem: where to deploy them so they would not be at each other's throats.

Some Iraqis feared that however much Iraqi territory separated the nuclear rivals of South Asia, the two armies might find a way to harass each other in Iraq over some imaginary "line of control" like the one that separates their formations in Kashmir.

It has been hard enough to win the peace among a restive population that resents the current American occupation without worrying about keeping peace among the peacekeepers.
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[carpetbagger]

1. Never fear, I heard South Korea's going to lead the division.

I mean, they've got entirely more soldiers than they'll ever need, being as they sit on an isolated peninsula with no enemies to speak of.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Yea. They are going to send 3000 troops to Iraq while we have 39,000...

...US soldiers in their country protecting them. Funny world we live in.

Don

[leesa]

3. Stop it with that logic stuff, I can't bear it!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Name that tune by Barry McGuire.....

[jamesinca]

6. I can name it in 1 note

Eve of Destruction 1963, it is said to be the first protest song of the Vietnam era. A few lines from it

The eastern world it is exploding, violence flairing, bullets loading.

You don't belive in war, but what's that gun your toting.

Your old enough to kill, but not for voting ( that line really dates the piece).

Even the Jordan river has bodies floating.

Hate your next door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Bingo. And while dated, it's as relevant as ever.

[Nottingham]

5. Ya WHERE ARE THEY!!

:bounce: At Home saying No WAY are we going there! FOR WHAT!!

Bush can get OIL!