[Ruatha]

Just read the entire thread and here's some comments for several Posts, might not make much sense if you haven't just read it all Posts at once...

I think the french revolution lead to something good eventually..

Peacekeepers are mostly military, and they have their national symbols on their uniforms, usually national uniforms.

We in sweden, a relative small country of 9 million people, have personel in international service in 15 places right now (Kosovo (KFOR), Bosnia (SFOR), Balkan (EUMM), Liberia (UNMIL), Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), Eritrea/Etiopia (UNMEE), Kongo (MONUC), Sudan (JMM/JMC), Georgia (UNOMIG), Georgia (OSCE), Middle east (UNTSO), Afganistan (ISAF), Kashmir (UNMOGIP), Korea (NNSC), East timor (UNMISET).

We are planning on sending the airforce abroad on peacekeeping missions aswell, as we have one of the best multi-purpose jets in service today (SAAB JAS-39 Gripen), I think the plan was Kongo, where we've had the airforce on peace keeping missions before.

The US dollar is at an 7 year low right now.

Just becourse we critize aspects of the US doesn't mean we don't critize our own countries and goverments.. It's just that not many people on this forum are intersted in the internal politics in Sweden I think, but there seems to be an interest in the US politics, which is understandable as it has a global effect in a way Swedish (and other small countries) politcs doesn't have.

Why can't people see that some countries (France, Russia etc) might have thought the war against Iraq was a bad idea, just as the US thought it was agood idea? Does it have to be a bad motive only?
Sure there where several things taken into consideration but ultimately I belive the decisions both in US and France was heavily influenced becourse the leaders thought their decisions where the "best" for the people in Iraq. (I know I'm naive..)

So, totally random comments, can you see where they fit in?