U.S.: I nominate anybody but us to do Sudan
■"10,000 Peacekeepers Sought By U.S. for Southern Sudan: Americans want U.S. forces to ensure that a peace pact is upheld," by Warren Hoge, New York Times, 15 February 2005, p. A10.
The U.S. would like 10,000 peacekeepers and 750 cops in Sudan—pronto!
And it would be nice if the UN took the lead. Problem is we’re holding up the Old Core’s desire to have the International Criminal Court be the lead player in prosecuting the guilty.
Time to get our chocolate in their peanut butter and vice versa. Otherwise, we’re left with saying, “It’d be nice if you did the peacekeeping so long as the ICC isn’t involved.”
Meanwhile, all we hear back is, “Oh yeah, well, it’d be nice if the ICC was involved so long as you led the peacekeeping!”
Guess where that dialogue goes. Nowhere.
We have to seed the SysAdmin and the SysAdmin must eventually feed the ICC. Piss and moan all you want about these outcomes. Decry them from the mountain top. Declare me a traitor to the Founding Fathers and a one-world-government toady.
But in the end, this is going to happen. Won’t happen cause we want it. Won’t happen cause we like it.
It’ll happen because we can’t stand the continued failure and pain we’re left with otherwise.