Comments on: United Nations Should Be Accountable For Peacekeeper Crimes

By: bosskitty

bosskitty — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:40:10 +0000

Thank you Cassandra, I enjoyed you blog and put you in my blogroll. Our missions are alike. Unnecessary violence, especially against children, must become top priority. Too many despicable traits are tolerated by all armies. The mental illness that drives soldiers to commit atrocities must be addressed on a global scale. I am convinced that there is an underlying mental health epidemic that has infected our leaders and their armies. Sociopathic behavior must be recognized before it can be treated.

By: Cassandra Clifford

Cassandra Clifford — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:21:46 +0000

Thank you for keeping an eye on the situation and referring it to your readers. Additionally thank you for referring to my post UN Peacekeepers and the Abuse of Children. Please also see my post earlier this month Abuse by UN Peacekeepers at http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/06/01/abuse-by-un-peacekeepers/

Best
Cassandra

By: bosskitty

bosskitty — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:27:50 +0000

Opit, how right you are. Why do nations feel it is easier to shoot someone rather than talk to them? Is this a perverted way to depopulate an over-populated planet? Why do (western) societies always want more than they need?
My theory is that society has been mesmerized by marketing geniuses. Market driven societies will always need to extort the less fortunate to do their bidding. “If you want what I’ve got, do as I say”. This strategy is backfiring. Personal satisfaction has contorted a world view, consequences be damned. Somewhere, humans lost touch with Mother Nature and have been lured into the trap of consumerism.
Sorry for getting distracted, the UN seems to have recruited unsavory “peacekeepers”. What angers me is the cover up and insistence on immunity for its criminals. Honor and veracity lost, the UN has exacerbated problems they are sent to diffuse.

By: opit

opit — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:41:12 +0000

The UN is at least purportedly ‘keeping peace.’
NATO provides spotters for air assaults on civilians if I follow the end results of their ativities correctly – just like U.S. forces in Iraq.
As you say, “corruption follows armies” – logical since corruption sends them.