<Any UN force will require an supreme commander, just as UN forces during the Korean War had MacArthur...>
Hmmm, that sounds a fun job. I'll take it on.
Also, you're not quite right that only one country has the necessary resources to take it on as a "leader". As with so much in the world, a co-operative effort is more effective.
USA military employees are simply too expensive. Chinese, Indian and Pakistani forces would be much, much cheaper, giving a far bigger bang for the buck. But USA arms technology is no doubt far better than competing equipment, so the USA could supply that.
With me in charge, we won't need USS Raygun, but we'd need USS Enterprise. The military would become much more of a police force, looking for the Osama, Tim McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski type rather than the massed, armed to the teeth, society-driven rank and file 1812 Overture style conflicts.
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PS With all those expensive USA soldiers in Iraq, there is a massive transfer of funds going on to the locals. No wonder they don't want the USA to leave, even apart from the USA soldiers keeping the bad old days of Saddam at bay. |
