The rant of late is that the American military is FIGHTING a war, rather than being a "FORCE FOR PEACE" i.e. standing by and letting others fight it out as was the model for the UN "Peacekeepers" in Rwanda, Darfur and so many other conflicts.
In Rwanda for example, the UN Peacekeepers kept the peace for themselves, managing to scurry away while the killers kept on killing -- heck they weren't killing Europeans or Americans for goodness sake, just Africans. Getting in the middle of a machete fight may not be the smartest way to keep the peace for yourself or to stay alive for that matter. No, that will not do.
After all, European lives and American lives have greater value than other lives don't you know, so why bother getting involved in a battle not our own?
The best thing is to BE for Peace but take no action to guarantee or establish peace and what does peace mean if you’re dead? I’ve wondered this on occasion. Perhaps when the UN speaks of peace, they are referring to peace in the after-life.
The same rationale is now being offered for Iraq. They’re just Iraqis after all—barely people really. “Let them fight it out for themselves…It’s their problem…” It’s all the craze now amongst the peace-minded American elite and their lapdogs in the Congress and Senate.
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