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Article: French peacekeepers; The tried lessons from Bosnia.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2003
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Byline: Soner Cagaptay, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As Washington gets ready to approach the United Nations for international support in Iraq, France is poised to ask for a significant role in running the country, including the stationing of peacekeepers there. Although U.N. assistance would be a valuable contribution to U.S. efforts to create a new Iraq, it remains to be seen whether French peacekeepers would actually be beneficial.
Paris' recent record of its wartime performance and subsequent peacekeeping in Bosnia suggests that once deployed, French troops tend to ignore their primary mission of fighting warmongers.
In July 1995, for ...