UN Springs Into Action, Begs US for Help
The Secretary General of the United Nations actively obstructs the efforts of the US in Iraq, but expects us to run to his aid when the UN fails miserably to keep the peace in Haiti: Annan Makes Plea For Troops in Haiti. (Hat tip: Frank.)
UNITED NATIONS, June 29 — United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan asked the United States this week to consider sending troops to Haiti to support a U.N. peacekeeping mission beset by mounting armed challenges to its authority, according to senior U.N. officials.
Annan told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday afternoon that he may have to ask for American “boots on the ground” in the coming months to reinforce more than 6,500 Brazilian, Chilean, Argentine and other peacekeeping forces serving in Haiti, the officials said.
He expressed hope that the United States would participate in a planned U.N. rapid reaction force, authorized by the Security Council earlier this month, that would have the firepower to intimidate armed gangs threatening the country’s fragile political transition. Officials said that similar requests are being considered for other countries, including Canada and France. “We want scarier troops,” one senior U.N. official said.
Maybe they should start by losing those robin’s egg blue helmets.