If you want to "prevent" or "stop" situations like Rwanda you need to be able to impose your will on another country (or faction in a civil war). That imposition of will is called war. Regardless of the amount of troops standing by on-call, the key ingredient is to have the will and mandate to use them for other than hand-wringing. That is about politics, not the means to implement.

My two cents as usual.

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With an independent force at their disposal, and no obligation to send in their own troops, the Security Council's often squabbling members would have less reason to drag out debates about when to intervene in crises.

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Nice fantasy. Security Council members will still jockey around playing for advantage except in those rare instances where nobody has anything at all invested in whatever problem is being addressed.

To even begin to get off of the ground this idea has to be combined with a revision of the UN to eliminate the veto power of individual nations in the SC. A two thirds majority of the SC should be adequate to force action.

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Originally posted by paxamillion:
I can see all the "coming rapture" types getting all over this "next step" in the coming world government of the beast.

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Yes! Yes! All the "patriot" whackos and New World Order conspiracy theorists must be wetting themselves over this. Of course, many of them believe there has been a secret UN army operating around the world for a long time already - impersonating local police while confiscating firearms from the citizenry, quietly assassinating people who 'know too much', covering up UFO crashes and abductions, etc. etc.

So, they may dismiss this announcement as just another attempt to hide the true size and power of the secret portion of the "UN army".

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Originally posted by Rgaiason:

Of course, many of them believe there has been a secret UN army operating around the world for a long time already - impersonating local police while confiscating firearms from the citizenry, quietly assassinating people who 'know too much', covering up UFO crashes and abductions, etc. etc.

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Originally posted by siren:

Little do they know that this is actually the mandate of the CIA.

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I was under the impression the CIA spent all its time creating MK Ultra and Operation Monarch zombies, while running child prostitution rings on the side. (rense.com, Gunderson, Franklin cover-up, etc.)

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Failing that, I think there should at least be a rapid reaction capability for natural disasters and emergency relief efforts. And of course, I would favour retired military personel for those jobs. They have the logistical expertise.

But as ever, the key to U.N. action is to take a page from Sun Tzu, and accompish what is large while it is still small. Or, as Benny Franklin used to say, "a stitch in time saves nine."

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Originally posted by TK 421:
That imposition of will is called war.

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Originally posted by Rgaiason:

I'm trying to figure out where this strange piece of disinformation fits into the scheme of things:
Bilderbergers

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Hah, that's a pretty funny little blog spot. Yours?

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Kissinger Eats Banana Republic

Participants at last weeks Bilderberg group meeting in Ottawa were reportedly shocked to discover fellow participant Henry Kissinger lying semi-comatose in a hotel hallway, clutching his more than usually distended belly, after having consumed an entire Central American nation.

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Such a force would never - never - be used in support of anti-imperialist struggles, to enforce UN Security Council resolutions against Israel, or to protect leftists in Haiti or East Timor from being killed by their own US-client governments.