UN peace keeping in Afghanistan

United Nations Peace keeping in Afghanistan

By

James Bredin


UN peace-keeping guys appear like soldiers on parade,
Sitting ducks for a suicide bomber with a grenade,
I hate to be the one to burst the UN bubble,
But someone has to tell them about this awful trouble.

These days the UN seems to be stuck in the mud,
Can’t stop any war though they should if they could,
Soldiers in Afghanistan getting killed by the hour,
Brave dead young guys in coffins who didn’t cower.

How many more coffins will we carry to the grave yard?
How many more will sing: O Canada, we stand on guard,
At what point do we finally say, we’ve had enough?
Let’s cut our losses and call it off or call the UN bluff.

This is not WW1 with a hundred thousand brave dead,
Buried on battlefields in France with stones overhead,
There’s no battlefields in Afghanistan and no peace to keep,
Indeed it could be the UN death knell or are we all asleep?

Leave Afghanistan to themselves and they can kill each other.
Let them cry for their own father, mother, brother,
We can sit back here in our splendid isolation,
Avoid UN peacekeeping at every temptation.

Wednesday, August 9, 2006



Suicide Bomber Death for the UN

By

James Bredin

Pompous politicians tend to pretend that they’re right,
When without a battlefield there’s no enemy in sight,
Where peace keeping and peace making makes no sense,
When we’re the enemy and suicide is their defense.

They can kill many men with one suicide bomber deranged,
Cowardly fanatical but the rules of engagement have changed,
Therefore peace making doesn’t cut it and we’re sitting ducks,
We’re dead or observers as in the Rwanda crux.

No uniforms in Afghanistan so killers are not known,
And suicide bombers approach completely alone,
Therefore peacekeeping in these places should be reassessed,
Only the UN would consider this type operation blessed.

As they pompously proclaim their sorrow for the dead,
They want more and the number should always be ahead,
Our UN is difficult to believe but this is true,
Like hitting your head on a wall till you’ve turned blue.

It takes guts to do this and even tougher to admit,
Before another dozen soldiers get the suicide hit,
There is no peace keeping and very little debating,
No enemy battlefield and suicide guys waiting.

Will we retire from peacekeeping or even the UN?
Or continue counting our suicide-bomber dead men?
Do we have referendums or recall or what do you think?
Can we impress the powers that be and will they blink?

Monday, August 14, 2006