world army?
by John at 9/23/2004 09:20:00 AM
Bush proposed a permanent world army for peacekeeping activities in his UN speech Tuesday.
"Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil, and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing. We must create permanent capabilities to respond to future crises.
The United States and Italy have proposed a Global Peace Operations Initiative. G-8 countries will train 75,000 peacekeepers - initially from Africa - so they can conduct operations on that continent and elsewhere. The countries of the G-8 will help this peacekeeping force with deployment and logistical needs." [my emphasis]
The Group of Eight (G-8) are the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, the USA, and Russia, plus the EU (G-8+?) . Does Bush think that he will have better luck getting them to agree with us than he has had with the U.N. Security Council? Maybe on an issue like Darfur (although Russia is still not on the correct side there).
Nonetheless, I think something like this is probably a good idea (since I'm one of those anti-American, multilateralist naives), but I doubt that many conservatives would feel the same way. I can easily imagine what they would say if Kerry proposed such a thing.
"Because we believe in human dignity, the world must have more effective means to stabilize regions in turmoil, and to halt religious violence and ethnic cleansing. We must create permanent capabilities to respond to future crises.
The United States and Italy have proposed a Global Peace Operations Initiative. G-8 countries will train 75,000 peacekeepers - initially from Africa - so they can conduct operations on that continent and elsewhere. The countries of the G-8 will help this peacekeeping force with deployment and logistical needs." [my emphasis]
The Group of Eight (G-8) are the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, the USA, and Russia, plus the EU (G-8+?) . Does Bush think that he will have better luck getting them to agree with us than he has had with the U.N. Security Council? Maybe on an issue like Darfur (although Russia is still not on the correct side there).
Nonetheless, I think something like this is probably a good idea (since I'm one of those anti-American, multilateralist naives), but I doubt that many conservatives would feel the same way. I can easily imagine what they would say if Kerry proposed such a thing.
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