Peacekeeping

The question is what is the concept of Peacekeeping?
Well really it evolves around military soldiers taking over the position of the protector. This is usually done for the 'poor' and 'defenseless' of course the flaw is as simple as the protocol by which they are operating. Where do you draw that line? The main question is do you draw the line with the common criminal? OR are these 'peace-keepers' allowed to only intervene in other military operations? Can they protect the harmless neighbor being attacked by not so harmless one. Of course the concept of the peace-keeper which is usually being sent into harms way in a trouble zone in which peaceful side by side living seems impossible. Those peace-keepers are being sent into impossible situations in which friend and foe can not be distinguished.
Of course that will also show the worst in the people sent there, who often eventually return after a mission not completed, a mission not supported and people not understanding. However some of the peace-keepers eventually show signs psychological break down this can be seen in many ways.
Some of the men involved in those missions apparently resort to sad acts which are then usually committed by desperate people.
How and why are hard to understand since of course most people have not encountered such stressful situations such as the peace-keeping missions on which we send our peace-keepers. Now if a soldier fires back on instinct and is then pursued for following in stressful situation training then it is not the soldier that is at fault but logically it would be the person who send the soldier there and the person who trained the soldier. However we seem to tend to accuse the soldier of anything he does even if based on instinct instead of considering that the military doctrine has to be reconsidered. Not to mention the reconsideration of the entire concept of peace-keeping especially in the manner in which it is done at this point. Forcing soldiers not just into impossible situations but also confronting them with impossible situations in which we force those soldiers to watch massacres without being permitted to interfere or press charges or do anything but be forced to only watch and do nothing. Especially that to men and women which have been trained to act.

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