the UN and Iraq

[BobHunt]

what would stop a contingent of UN troops from keeping peace in Iraq?

[Bruce Carriker]

Common sense?

[BobHunt]

oh i meant NATO troops.

[David Cash]

Probably the same thing that stops American troops from keeping peace in Iraq. It's very hard to keep peace in an environment dedicated to war. You have to kill about as many people as the trouble makers.

It's why they used to call a certain kind of gun a peace maker.

It's an ugly concept of peace. We look for Christ to someday give us the real and lasting thing. Until then, things probably are going to be pretty sad, if not in Iraq, somewhere else.

David Cash

[Jim Franklin]

Some of the NATO nations are not up to or refuse to keep their commitment to the charter.

[Bruce Carriker]

Some of the NATO nations are not up to or refuse to keep their commitment to the charter.

Being a member of NATO does not obligate one nation to come to the aid and assistance of another treaty member in a war not authorized by NATO in the first place. If Germany unilaterally decided to invade Poland, that would not make it a NATO obligation which other members of the alliance are bound to support.

We initiated the war in Iraq over the objections of both the UN and most of our NATO allies. We are not there as part of EITHER a UN mission (as in the first Gulf War) or as part of a NATO mission (as in the Balkans). We went on our own.

NATO is not obligated to bail us out. And the way this administration treated them in the weeks leading up to the war, who could blame them?