Kofi Annan Quotes
Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.
Annan, Kofi, and Nader Mousavizadeh. Interventions: A Life in War and Peace. Penguin Press, 2012.
The General’s plan was not accepted by the UN and the participating governments. The genocide was not abated.
Iraq has always been a military and political quagmire. 60 years later the United States, in the Iraq War, would run into problems without the cooperation of the local populations and tribes. American war planners all but ignored the British experience and ended up with similar difficulties. See {586424} for another example.
The German Green party was traditionally a left wing party, very concerned with civil rights and generally opposed to repressive use of police and military. However, faced with terrorism, the party would consider what under circumstances other than terror would have been unthinkable.
During the Iraq War, the Congressman partially changed his mind the following year and called for a plan to move American troops to the periphery of the fighting. A highly decorated war hero with two Purple Hearts, he was then called a coward, by some Republican members of Congress and the Bush Administration—almost always by people who had never served in the military and often sought and obtained deferments.
This general perception led the Founding Fathers to place profound restrictions on the allowable role of the military in national law enforcement—a condition that exists to this day.
Four years later the President embarked on a nation-building effort in Iraq which was beset with many problems.
Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded by Nelson Mandela.
