US and South Sudan

This article points out what a failed foreign policy the US has and how far we have fallen in the last eight yrs. It is enough to make you want to puke. - JJ

Mogadishu - Had a couple of former "Black  Hawk Down' Ranger "fast ropers" come through my LEO BLEOTCs.  One, among many times, this instructor took instruction.  Another time when a former Navy BUD/S . . . was a student in my LE [modified]MOUT class.

Be ashamed of what our politicians have allowed our government to become but forever honor those brave enough so serve.  Like Churchill said, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."

I in no way meant to denigrate any US service personnel. I was referring to the cowardly Pakistani UN Peacekeepers in Mogadishu who literally had to be forced, at gunpoint in some cases, to go to the aid of the Rangers and Delta Force.

JJ posted:

I in no way meant to denigrate any US service personnel. I was referring to the cowardly Pakistani UN Peacekeepers in Mogadishu who literally had to be forced, at gunpoint in some cases, to go to the aid of the Rangers and Delta Force.

I didn't take it that way.  I'm in agreement with you 100%.  I guess my comment muddied the waters a bit.

Get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the US.

I do see the advantage of a forum for all national leaders to meet. However, except for the World Health Organization (WHO), much of the UN efforts are to naught.  While I believe the US should remain a member, it should reduce its support.  Perhaps, the UN HQ could be move to a place more homey to the majority of the second and third world kleptocrat leaders – the Upper Volta River Republic, Ghana or North Korea come to mind.

Bud, no problem.