But Daffy Duck

Is not Mr Singer just a little better than a "zionist propaganda hack" of the "powerful Jewish lobby"?

Look at all the work he put into the article - with minimal cut and pastes. Must have taken him days if not weeks!

Geoff of Perth

u believe in fairytales!

Dear David Singer

Where you say at the end:

"Only an internationally-sanctioned force replacing Obama’s coalition can stem the tide. President Obama needs to get that Security Council Resolution rolling."

There are large "an internationally-sanctioned [UN] forces" in many of the radical Islamist trouble spots you have pointed out.

The UN has greatly appreciated much US Coalition assistance for decades:
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See the most relevant parts of this UN Peacekeeping Fact Sheet http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/factsheet.shtml

Current peacekeeping operations: 16
Personnel
Uniformed personnel: 104,668 (as of 28 February 2015)
Approved resources for the period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015: about $8.47 billion [much paid by the US]

[Missions Include]

United Nations Mission Western Sahara (MINURSO) since April 1991
Strength: 476 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 220
Civilian personnel: 244
Fatalities: 15
Approved budget (07/2014– 06/2015): $55,990,080

United Nations Central African Republic (MINUSCA) since April 2014
Strength: 9,660 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 9,285
Civilian personnel: 357
Approved budget (07/2014– 06/2015): $628,724,400

United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) since April 2013
Strength: 11,029 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 9,883
Civilian personnel: 1027
Fatalities: 46
Approved budget: (07/2014– 06/2015): $830,701,700

United Nations Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) since July 2010
Strength: 25,175 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 21,067
Civilian personnel: 3,679
Fatalities: 86
Approved budget (07/2014 – 06/2015): $1,398,475,300

African Union-United Nations Darfur (UNAMID) since July 2007
Strength: 19,994 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 15,863
Civilian personnel: 3,839
International civilians: 970
Fatalities: 215
Approved budget (07/2014 – 06/2015): $1,153,611,300

United Nations Abyei (UNISFA) since June 2011
Strength: 4,304 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 4,089
Civilian personnel: 193
Fatalities: 17
Approved budget (07/2014 – 06/2015): $318,925,200

United Nations Mission South Sudan (UNMISS) since July
Strength: 14,272 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 11,669
Civilian personnel: 2,194
Fatalities: 35
Approved budget(07/2014 – 06/2015): $1,097,315,100

United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) since April 2004
Strength: 8,784 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 7,602
Civilian personnel: 1,028
Fatalities: 130
Approved budget (07/2014 - 06/2015): $493,570,300

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) since September 2003
Strength: 7,299 total, including:
Uniformed personnel: 5,865
Civilian personnel: 1,241
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Your views please.

Pete

Dear Pete,

But what are those 104,668 personnel instructed to do?

We know from previous missions that their instructions were to lie on the beach, visit bars, drink and harass the local girls. When trouble actually occurred, such as the genocide in Rwanda, they were ordered to not intervene (though they clearly could) and flee the country.

"Peacekeeping" is a code-name for an organised holiday at the expense of other countries' tax-payers - see http://www.unmemovie.com

Are yee o' little faith Yuyutsubabe.

UN staff may receive twice the pay but surely they work (or Party) twice as hard?

If they fail then all the more reason for all those benign US Coalitions - of which Australia has perpetual membership.

Sure Pete, I sincerely hope those coalitions will do better, though looking at the clumsiness of the US and its past history, I may doubt so... but hope I'm wrong!