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To: michael97123 who wrote (106912)	7/21/2003 2:06:13 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Mike, Its not as simple as it seems. Peacekeeping may be popular with the media, but its just as deadly as war. Occupation is occupation. In the Balkans alone - Canada lost 23 soldiers between deployment in 1995 and 2002. A little over 100 dead since the founding of the UN - for a deployment of approximately 100,000 troops (counted as soldier tours of duty). Dead per deployed-tour-of-duty numbers look worse for these missions than Gulf War 1 or 2 (so far). Albeit they are far better than Korea/Vietnam and prior Wars. Just because the US Govt is hated and the UN revered in liberal circles, don't start thinking the UN is loved when its imposing the worlds viewpoint on some country. You will notice that the UN forces used to be largely staffed from countries like Canada, Norway, Belgium etc, but increasingly utilizes forces from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Western countries don't like causulties. War is news - so these dead are on the Front Page - Peacekeeping deaths don't even rate the first 10 pages. The exception was Somalia - because Peacekeeping was unusual for the US at the time. John

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