On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:39:03PM -0500, paul stenquist wrote: > > Taking action against another country -- even one that engages in genocide -- > is frowned upon these days. Those who take action against the perpetrators > are themselves cast as the aggressors, so there is no longer any feasible way > to control those who choose to exterminate a portion of their population.
That's probably because the only organisations who could field forces that are remotely capable of actually doing anything about such a situation generally regard their armed forces as a tool to enforce their own political goals, not as humanitarian outfits. That's not too hard to understand - if you're going to have your boys come home in body bags, they need to be fighting for a cause that resonates with the decision makers. Human nature being what it is, attempts to set up multi-national forces end up with forces that are emasculated to the point of inneffectiveness because all decisions have to be taken by committee, and you can never get concensus. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
