Why are UN peacekeepers seen on film saluting terrorists? And does this affect your view of the UN?

Question

"....Associated Press photographer Mohammed Zaatari captured an image of the [UN] troops paying homage to fallen Hezbollah fighters as trucks bearing their coffins drove through the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon...."

See:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,386646,00.html

Peace

Answer 1

THE UN IS THE MOST USELESS ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD. IT IS TIME FOR THIS GROUP OF THIRD WORLD THUGS TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS.

Answer 2

I never had much respect for the UN to begin with.

Answer 3

It doesn't effect the view I already have of the UN.  UN "peace-keeping" troops in Lebanon allowed Hezbollah to rearm after the 2006 conflict right under their noses -- in fact, they probably aided them.  The USA needs to get out of this disgusting organization, the UN.  Its using mostly American tax payer dollars to fund it and we are giving this decrepit, terrorist-sympathizing organization legitimacy.  The UN works against the USA and Isarel.  Congress just approved a bill giving 50 billion American tax payer dollars to the UN to use for AIDS control in poor countries -- the same organization that had the Oil-For-Food scandal, and tax dollars will probably end up going to the tyrants of Africa.  Use my taxes on Americans.

Answer 4

Why? Because they chose to. (or were they ordered to?)

ronald reagan negotiated with iranian terrorists and sold them arms (iran/contra), even after they bombed the USMC barracks in beirut..

"U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said the suicide truck bombing was carried out by the group Hezbollah with the approval and funding of Iran's senior government officials."(see link - provided)

ronnie cut deals with them, so why would you have a problem with the UN's actions now?

Answer 5

Remember the majority of UN nations are either Arabs, Africans and third world countries, The UN is a shame to society and to the world. They should be disband.

Answer 6

Hezbollah was responsible for some of the first terrorist attacks against America. It is a travesty that they have been basically unanswered by the United States. Our mission statement was clear "...to provide a presence in Beirut, that would in turn help establish the stability necessary for the Lebanese government to regain control of their capital." It seems that America has forgotten. 241 of my friends and comrades died October 23, 1983 and I will never forget.

Alpha 1st Battalion 8th Marines 2nd Marine Division

Semper-Fi

Answer 7

It confirms my belief that the UN is evil, we need to get out of it and it needs to get out of New York!

Answer 8

These were troops from Lebanon. There are NO "UN troops". There have NEVER been "UN troops." The term "UN Peacekeepers" is applied to troops who are under the command of their own militaries and governments, who are mobilized to a particular region under a resolution by the UN Security Council. They are still troops of their own nations; they are NOT under the command of the "UN."

So, no, it doesn't affect my view of the UN, since it has NOTHING to do with the UN. It affects by view of LEBANON, where these troops are from.

Answer 9

Because the UN is on the side of islamofascist racist terrorists who want to kill every Jew and eliminate Israel.

This story does not change my view of the UN. It is just more confirmation.

Answer 10

FOX 5.  Say no more. Next Hannity will be saluting O'Reilly.

Answer 11

UN = United Nothings

That sums up what i think of this bureaucratic mess they call UN

Answer 12

The UN will be the controlling arm of The New World Order.

The one army for the one world government.