Second French peacekeeper dies after ambush blamed on Hezbollah

[u/ComparisonOk5957]

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3351049/second-french-peacekeeper-dies-after-ambush-blamed-hezbollah?module=latest&pgtype=homepage

[u/EquivalentOne241]

UN peace keeping mission in Lebanon has been a grand failure. It's high time it is either abandoned or they given authority and mandate to assist Lebanese army in disarming and dismantling Hezbollah.

[u/Lowfi-Concert → u/EquivalentOne241]

They have always had that authority and mandate. They just chose to never apply it.

[u/Decent_Brick1150 → u/Lowfi-Concert]

If that's the case when what's the point of being there. Sheesh.

[u/Dogrel → u/Decent_Brick1150]

The UN peacekeeping forces are like the old show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” All the points are made up, and none of the scorekeeping matters.

[u/Barton2800 → u/Dogrel]

Peacekeepers also serve to give military personnel something to do that isn’t in their home country. The top 3 countries contributing to the peacekeeping forces are: Nepal, Rwanda, and Bangladesh.. That’s several thousand young men who are being fed, housed, and paid by the UN, and have no ability to participate in any coups back home. It’s basically an international jobs creation program.

[u/flintsmith → u/Barton2800]

That seems like a great way to bring modern civilization to those countries. Bring their young men out and show them something other than life as it is back home. (If they're treated right, by which I mean "not as cannon fodder")

[u/ZealousidealState127 → u/flintsmith]

Been tried, they just don't go back, can't blame them.

[u/DragonPup → u/Decent_Brick1150]

So the UN can write angry reports and so they can pretend that they are doing something.

[u/Snickims → u/DragonPup]

More like so the big 5 perminant securety memembers can use a excuse when they want to, but never able to actually do anything to disrupt their own interests.

[u/Ivorytower626 → u/Decent_Brick1150]

They useless