Friday, July 01, 2005
Kofi Backs American Force
As long as it makes the U.N. look good:
We want scarier troops is the message from Kofi Annan to George W. Bush:
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" (quotation marks mine) 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.
No doubt, but I've got a prediction for the U.N.'s Weasel-In-Chief: amoebas will drive speedboats before he ever gets to see American soldiers wearing the blue helmet.
We want scarier troops is the message from Kofi Annan to George W. Bush:
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" (quotation marks mine) 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.
No doubt, but I've got a prediction for the U.N.'s Weasel-In-Chief: amoebas will drive speedboats before he ever gets to see American soldiers wearing the blue helmet.
