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The price of peacekeeping.(Correction, Please!)(peacekeeping in Iraq)
ITEM: "Bush administration officials," reported the June 22nd Washington Post, "after months of diplomatic effort, proudly discussed their expectation that more than 40 countries will combine to send at least 20,000 troops to help U.S. forces police Iraq. The result, as a Pentagon spokesman put it, is a 'good news Story.'"
CORRECTION: Both the major media and the Bush administration assume that some entity must police the world and enforce UN Security Council resolutions. The only question, supposedly, is who should do the policing: the United States acting alone; a "coalition of the willing" led by the United States; or some other multinational peacekeeping force under the command of either the United Nations or its NATO subsidiary. The worse the situation becomes in Iraq, the greater the demand will be to get others more deeply involved. Yet the major media never questions whether the U.S. should police the world in the first place.
Even if the U.S. should police Iraq with the help of many other nations, the "good news story" cited by the Pentagon official ...
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