12-29-2021, 10:36 PM
(12-29-2021, 10:12 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: I know I am deviating from the OP here but I am frustrated with the UN and their "peace keeping". They don't do it. They have ROE that specifically prevents them from helping anybody. So why be there? What is the purpose?
It may be that they only go to get combat experience at ducking their pretty blue headgear out of the paths of warlike objects passing too closely to them, creating a threat to said headgear. If that is the case, Myanmar sounds like the perfect proving ground for them, since it's starting to sound like a free for all with an embattled military on the defensive and rival militias springing up everywhere you look with intent to offend that military!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’