Word: disarrayed
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...disarray is clearly not going to be quieted with conciliatory rhetoric - or stand-tough bravado. The challenge facing all members of the peacekeeping team is not only how to bring stability to Somalia but also how to devise successful formulas for undertaking a more active role in post-cold war peacemaking. Even if the Loi furor is smoothed over, the real debate has just begun...
Consider the current disarray of U.N. forces in Somalia. The Italians have the third largest contingent assigned to the U.N. force. But the operation in which they lost three soldiers was reportedly not authorized by, not even known to, the U.N. commander in Somalia. And when the Italian commander subsequently received an order from his ostensible U.N. superior, he refused to obey. He would take his instructions from Rome, he said. The U.N. demanded that the Italian commander be relieved. Italy refused and threatened to pull out altogether...
...smacks of colonialism. And so it does. It is colonialism. But no one has come up with a better idea for saving countries like Somalia from themselves. Trusteeship means unified authority imposed by a real army taking orders from a single capital. That is certainly better than the disarray now so painfully on display in Mogadishu...
...diplomat. That is downright scary to leaders of client countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which must be able to count on Washington in a tight spot -- and an opening for those, like Saddam Hussein, who would love to make Clinton's life harder. Last week the appearance of disarray only heightened when Christopher had to disavow lunchtime remarks made to reporters by Under Secretary Peter Tarnoff, the State Department's chief operating officer. Tarnoff's principal sin appeared to be telling unpalatable truths: that the end of the cold war and economic troubles at home required a smaller world...
...program is also involved in a feud with the new Ukrainian state, which has its own space program. A Russian meteorological satellite was turned off in orbit, so Ukraine couldn't recover weather data from it. Some of the stolen Baikonur equipment has mysteriously resurfaced in Ukraine. Understandably, the disarray of Russia's once great space program has NASA officials worrying about scheduled joint U.S.-Russian manned spaceflights...