Comments on: UN Sends All-Female U.N. Peacekeeping Unit to Liberia

By: David Harris

David Harris — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:49:06 +0000

Are you sure that was Bill Murray? That sounds very much like something A. Whitney Brown would say.

Very humorous, nonetheless.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:09:38 +0000

I heard the same thing Dave is referring to - the women are being sent in because the male UN peacekeepers have a nasty habit of raping the women and kids they are supposed to be protecting.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:37:20 +0000

I haven't been able to find any word on whose idea this is. I wonder if this might not be a response to the criticisms of sexual misconduct by UN peacekeepers.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:17:59 +0000

True enough. But that's still a very different thing than a one-on-one confrontation.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:15:14 +0000

Are you sure? The Liberians, after all, elected a woman as President just recently.