Reply #21: I'm responding mostly out of my own frustration aquart

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and I'm really sorry you're day isn't going well. :hug:

I realize it is easy for me to criticize the UN at a distance; I'm simply fed up with a lifetime of reports about civilians being massacred (as they have been throughout history, as I know you well understand).

I suppose what threw me most was the inability of non-western UN forces at/near the scene to stop these people being killed, especially since reports indicate it was a masacre based on ethnic identity, and that approaches the legal definition of genocide from what I recall.

And yet the UN was able to authorize an air attack (trust me: if you don't know already, those MI-24's pack some very serious firepower) against the side it is opposing in this civil war.

I don't know (and I suppose that's the point) maybe the UN determined the attack on the Gbagbo base would end the overall fighting sooner, thus helping lower the body count.

If Ouattra's forces' behavior at Doukoue is any indication of potential ethnic cleansing once they win I suppose we'll be exposed to another round of genocide in somebody else's country.

I know; we can't fix everything. I do know this. I'm just sick and tired of all the killing. I suppose I'm getting old.

In any case: I hope your day/week improves, and that whatever human relationship issues you're experiencing resolve in the best of all possible ways. I'm on FB; feel free to drop me a message.

:hug: :grouphug: :* ...can't send any hearts without the fundraiser.