Peacekeeping promotes violence

[Occhidiangela]

Hi,
Thanks, forgot about that one.

--Pete

Aye, and the problem is that peacekeeping is noble in intent, but very impractical in execution.

Peace enforcement, on the other hand, is a bit more practical but it pisses people off.

See US Civil War, followed by Radical Reconstruction, as a fine example. It betrayed Lincoln's intent for the post war evolution to be one of healing. Thaddeus Stephens? Dead, but not soon enough.

I then look at Iraq, and wonder at how people don't learn from our own history.

I have for years decided that Paul Bremmer must have had a financial interest in an old REM album:

Fables of the Reconstruction.

Occhi