The history of the UN peacekeeping forces would be amusing if it weren't so disgraceful. Established in sentimental expectation of cooperation if not amity, conducted with willful ignorance, and contaminated with corruption and venery,  (however so much deplored) the Peacekeepers may best have been remembered, until now, for their graceful withdrawal from the Sinai and Gaza at the Israeli border in 1967  at the request of Egypt, in order to allow the invasion to proceed unimpeded. Oh, wait.  There was Srebrenica in 1995.  The Dutch peacekeepers have recently been charged with complicity and responsibility, in the massacre of 8,000 muslims, for peacefully abandoning their posts and delivering their safe zone guests to the invaders. So now, here we are in the Golan, and this is just one more example of bemused Peacekeepers being disarmed and told to take a hike, and it undoubtedly won't be the last.  The UN Disengagement Observer Force -- ...(Read Full Post)