[Newsbot]

Title: Hundreds of Rwandan troops enter eastern Congo
Category: Military
Posted By: Eisensapper
Date: 2009-01-20 04:11:26

[roger-roger]

Im not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing...

[martin14]

depends if those troops are Hutu or Tutsi...

but its probably a bad thing.

[roger-roger]

I like how the UN just sits back with a bucket of popcorn to watch the bloodshed thats about to occur.

Now I am not saying we should be there, but if the UN isnt going to do a damn thing, then they should GTFO.

[martin14]

agreed, the entire Continent needs to be rethought.

[DerbyX]

What exactly can anybody do against the seemingly forever hatred and conflict between the tutsis and hutus? Unless we can manage to get both sides to agree to pick areas to live in and stay there while we line UN troops along a no entry neutral zone for at least a generation then its almost hopeless.

If these guys haven't learned by now to find a way to live in peace then I doubt there is a lot we can do about it.

[roger-roger]

Which is why the UN should withdraw, if they dont want to place nice fine, then you dont get your international handout.

[DerbyX]

The UN itself needs a shakedown or better yet dismantling and rebuilding something else better organized to do the things it supposed to do.

[roger-roger]

I doubt the latter will ever happen unless the major players start to withdraw. What should be done is start ejecting nations from the UN.

[DerbyX]

How will that help? The problem is largely the fact that 5 members are set above the rest with special veto powers and who all use the UN for their own selfish purposes. Getting all the little guys together might be a path to a better organization.

[roger-roger]

Threatening the USA with ejection from the UN if it invaded Iraq might have stopped it. The same could be said about Canada and Afghanistan. At any rate the UN needs to be retooled like you say.

[ridenrain]

$1:

The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and forests.

Looks like it's payback time to me.
Good ridance.

[Arctic_Menace]

The League of Nations broke, so we got the United Nations. The United Nations is now broke, so we need something else.

[ridenrain]

It was a faulty idea.
When Iran or Syria has as much voting power as the US or Canada, it's little wonder things get screwed up. There are just too many bad countries that outnumber the good ones.
5 wolves voting to eat 3 sheep dosen't make good policy.

[DerbyX]

ridenrain ridenrain:

$1:

The Hutu fighters fled to Congo in 1994 after helping massacre more than a half-million Tutsis. They remain there untouched, heavily armed, and in control of lucrative mines in remote hills and forests.

Looks like it's payback time to me.
Good ridance.

Brilliant. Who is accused of a genocide again? Would that be the same troops you expect to go into Congo to enact fair and just payback?