Posted on 05/15/2007 4:34:51 PM PDT by Omega Man II
May. 15, 2007 13:53
Musharraf calls for Muslim peacekeepers in Iraq
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday urged an end to "outside interference" in Iraq and suggested that the country could be stabilized by a Muslim peacekeeping force.
"A political solution is a dire necessity now," the Pakistani leader said in an address to a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Islamabad.
"We have to stop all outside interference in Iraq. The carnage that is taking place there has to stop, and if outside interference stops, I think internal control would be possible," Musharraf said.
"And if all the warring factions ... accept, then maybe a Muslim peacekeeping force under the United Nations could be looked at, if that leads to peace and resolution of this crisis," he added.
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ox·y·mo·ron (ŏk'sē-môr'ŏn', -mōr'-)
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n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr'ə, -mōr'ə) or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
That’s easy for you to say.
Shades of Diogenes looking for a “Muslim peacekeeper”.
No
Musharif has a good point, imo. Saddam Hussein was a ‘peacekeeper’ in Iraq, because brutality is all these people really understand. Which is a concept that General Petraeus might want to study, instead of insisting that his troops use the failed concept of “hearts and minds”. “Hearts and minds” didn’t work in Vietnam, but M-16’s, quad 50 cals, heavy artillery, Cobras, F-14 Tomcats and B-52’s certainly did.
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