Seems there was a firefight in Congo:
U.N. Peacekeepers Kill 60 Militiamen in Congo
U.N. troops killed as many as 60 militiamen in a stepped-up campaign to clear northeastern Congo of rogue gunmen who have preyed on residents and are suspected in the recent slaying of nine peacekeepers, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
The peacekeepers, backed by an attack helicopter and responding to fire, killed more people than in any other operation during their six-year mission in Congo…
Two peacekeepers were wounded and evacuated to South Africa, U.N. spokeswoman Eliane Nabaa said.
Two comments:
1.) Good. They need to kill more of them, and then hit the Sudan.
2.) Funny how different the headline and story is when it is UN troops in Congo rather than American forces in Afghanistan. If this were our GI’s in Afghanistan, the headline would have been:
Militiamen Terrorize Afghan Villages, Two Americans Wounded
Mark
And don’t forget the calls of “QUAGMIRE” from the left.
Bob
Mark, are you saying we’re out of Afghanistan and Iraq? I must have missed it.
John Cole
IT’s even worse than that!! We still have trtoops in Germany and Japan! Quagmires everywhere!!
Bob- You are, hands down, the dumbest commenter I have ever had.
AF vet in Omaha
Be careful of getting into an argument with Bob, John. You know the saying of: “never argue with a dumbass in public, people might get you confused” or something to that effect.
And in the case of a moron of bob’s magnitude, we could all risk getting caught up in the “singularity stupidity” of his vapid….oh screw it: Bob, you’re a frickin moron and we’re all a bit dumber for even having read your verbal vomit of a posting!
The Sanity Inspector
Well, getting back on topic, I’m heartened that the UN had the sack to pull the trigger on these creeps. You can’t help but feel for poor Canadian general Romeo Dallaire, who was in Rwanda at the head of a UN troop detachment, but was stood down by the UNocrats when the massacres began. The UN has obviously been stung by all the proof lately that it is mostly a document factory. Yes, it’s good to see how forcefully the UN can strike, when there are no fat contracts between the Europeans and the local tinpot to preserve.
Kimmitt
Yes, it’s good to see how forcefully the UN can strike, when there are no fat contracts between the Europeans and the local tinpot to preserve.
Why, it’s almost as though the UN were designed to be powerless in the face of Great Power interests . . . like each of the major Powers had a veto on UN actions in the charter!
Good grief, man, get a clue.