“Advocates of UN peacekeeping like to argue that it delivers good value for the price.”

Not if you’re a woman who was raped in Africa by Nigerian “peacekeepers.” Nigeria has traditionally supplied some of the worst troops to these operations, being not only corrupt, but also outright dangerous to the populations they are supposed to be protecting. Some of the worst troops also come from Bangladesh. They see the UN as a way to make a buck, not as a military operation. As a result, when there is actual fighting that needs to be done, the troops from Bangladesh usually run away. If you read “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda” by Roméo Dallaire and Samantha Power, you will see not only how worthless troops from Bangladesh are when some fighting needs to be done, but you will also see how worthless UN military operations are in general. That book was written by the Canadian general who was in charge of the military operations in Rwanda when the worst form of genocide took place probably since the end of World War II. I felt sorry for this general because he really tried to stop it and make a difference. Unfortunately, due to the shear incompetance of the UN at the time, his hands were tied and literally hundreds of thousands of people died because of it. It is a sad story, as is the history of the UN in general.