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...some 15,000 troops deployed in peacekeeping and peace-enforcement operations around the world. Its troops have learned through bitter experience what to do (i.e. robust rules of engagement in the Ivory Coast) and what not to do (i.e. the dangerously diffuse and lethargic chain of command in Bosnia). UNIFIL will profit greatly from their increased presence, particularly since their number will suffice to stifle the discussion about whether French General Alain Pellegrini should retain his command of the UNIFIL force; that might have become problematic if his government had only provided a few engineering companies. Pellegrini, an experienced...
...committing large numbers of troops to the enlarged U.N. force itself. "I remember the painful experience of other operations where U.N. forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths of 71 French soldiers in the ill-conceived mission to Bosnia in the early 1990s. In October 1983, 58 French peacekeepers died in a suicide bombing in Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense of déjà vu is overpowering," says François Heisbourg, a security expert who was a chief adviser to the Defense Minister...
...postgraduate student of international politics, I have been dismayed by the lack of interest in the human tragedy that has been occurring in Congo for so many years. The Rwandan genocide is etched in our memories, and Bosnia and Kosovo received much international attention, yet the most deadly of all recent conflicts seems to go largely unnoticed by both the left and the right. Thank you for awakening us. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England...
...come from within. Laura Seay Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo As a postgraduate student of international politics, I have been dismayed by the lack of interest in the human tragedy that has been occurring in Congo for so many years. The Rwandan genocide is etched in our memories, and Bosnia and Kosovo received much international attention, yet the most deadly of all recent conflicts seems to go largely unnoticed by both the left and the right. Thank you for awakening us. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England Consumers vs. Climate Change I was pleased to see Jim Ledbetter's essay [June...
Michael Winterbottom, who co-directed the movie with Mat Whitecross, has fashioned a most adventurous filmography. He has made period tragedies (Jude) and comedies (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story), but his true métier is the political docudrama set in lands scorched by war: Bosnia for Welcome to Sarajevo, Afghanistan for In This World. The Road to Guantánamo is his most unsparing statement yet of war's brutalizing effect on both the prisoner and his jailer...