[extropy-chat] Re: Nam

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

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>
> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Are you going to blame the people for telling the truth about this
>> outrageous stupidity to the best of their abilities to know it?   My
>> motive is to get the US out of their and bring in the UN for the
>> purpose of returning the country to the Iraqis.   The economic blow
>> will be far worse imho if we stay.   I also disagree that our being
>> there saves more lives than if we left.
>>
>
> Samantha, who do you think historically makes up the bulk of UN
> peacekeeping forces? The UN has about 57,000 peacekeeping troops
> deployed around the world, most of whom are 'observers' without any
> capacity even to defend themselves, never mind protect others.  
> There is
> absolutely no way the UN could take control of things in Iraq without
> the US being the bulk of its force.


Did I say there would be no US troops under the UN uspices?  I don't  
believe I did.

> You are also being ignoring
> history, as well as being unrealistic: the UN already came into Iraq,
> got bombed, turned tail, and ran screeching like a little girl.

Hardly a fair characterization but then I wouldn't expect one from you.

>
> You can disagree all you want about numbers of lives saved, but the
> numbers contradict your beliefs.
>

What numbers are those?


- samantha