You could point to the former UN presence in Lebanon or the UN presence in Rwanda in 1994. If you want to see UN impotence, check out Hotel Rwanda. All of the UN troops there liked girls, and a million people perished. Ergo, heterosexuality was to blame.

Quoted for truth. Also read Romeo Dallaire’s book “Shake Hands with the Devil” and you’ll get an actual, detailed, insider perspective on how impotent the UN was in Rwanda. And how it really wasn’t the UN’s fault. The western countries really don’t want their soldiers to die in an inter-tribal war in a place that had no strategic value.

Some of the same issues were at play in Yugoslavia, particularly given that it was historically in the Soviet sphere of influence and the Serbs and Russians were historic allies.

The Dutch are furious over these remarks and themselves point out that many other countries, including Isreal and Canada have openly gay service members in active duty. This guy is a wing-nut – hopefully this comes back to bite him in the arse, big time!

Anyway, in 15 years this is the first time I have ever heard of this allegation from anyone, and I follow events in the former Yugoslavia. It is ridiculous. The fact that the DADT supporters can only justify the policy with an unsupported assertion passed on third-hand really tells you who is really engaged in social engineering and who is really politicizing military standards.

The truth is that all Blue Helmet operations become problematic once fighting begins. They have no real ability to challenge the combatants and can only be a “presence”. That is exactly what happened at this “safe area” in Bosnia.

You could point to the former UN presence in Lebanon or the UN presence in Rwanda in 1994. If you want to see UN impotence, check out Hotel Rwanda. All of the UN troops there liked girls, and a million people perished. Ergo, heterosexuality was to blame.

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