« In China, the real revolution/democracy movement is about the environment | Main | Yet another “orphan” for the Departments of War and Peace to fight over »

No peace, no peacekeepers. No Leviathan, no peace. No SysAdmin, just targets.

WEEK IN REVIEW: “Peacekeepers Without a Peace to Keep,” by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 14 October 2007, p. WK5.

Thirty truckloads of armed men is all its takes for the janjaweed to bull rush an African Union peacekeepers’ base and kill ten of them with impunity.

Think the EU + AU = SysAdmin?

Dream on.

Comments (1)

non-rhetorical question: Does anyone know if Sudan actually has a strategic interest in Darfur? Or is it territory for territory's sake exasperated by a political rival who fled there a few years back?

Post a comment

Comments must adhere to the comment policy. All TypeKey comments will post immediately (but are still subject to moderation) All other comments must wait for moderation before they publish. Please also read How to write so Tom will post/reply.

'Development-in-a-Box' is a registered trademark of Enterra Solutions.

Buy Tom's books online









About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on November 7, 2007 6:27 AM.

The previous post in this blog was In China, the real revolution/democracy movement is about the environment.

The next post in this blog is Yet another “orphan” for the Departments of War and Peace to fight over.

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.