The new old war in Korea

[kandrathe]

I'm going to go one step further. The problem is that many of those situations were not wars, they were police actions (and not just in name as Korea was). Combat soldiers are trained in how to destroy the enemy and take their land. They are not trained on how to control a population that's in turmoil, how to defuse situations instead of letting them explode.

Yes, there is that whole "nation building" part we claim we don't get involved in, but there it is, a necessary part of humanly getting the troops out once everything is destroyed. Perhaps, the inhumane part is having to destroy a nation, and drive their people to their knees in order to change the countries leadership (which may even be broadly unpopular). North Korean deprivation for the last 1/2 century is a glaring example of the failure of the UN.

We need an organization, possibly part of, possibly independent of, existing organizations. A cross between the military and the police. Sort of a super SWAT crossed with Sheriff Andy Jackson Taylor How we get that is left as an exercise to the reader.

As long as this is not a US organization, I would support the police portion (along with an occupational administrative and court system). However, the next best suggestion would be for it to be a division in the corrupted, and badly mismanaged United Nations. The SWAT portion should be a coordination between the UN police with the occupying army. The UN might be a solution if they put in some oversight, checks and balances, as well as streamline away some of the bureaucratic crap that makes them irrelevant and ineffective.