Businesses in Juarez, Mexico are asking for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops to stop the ongoing drug violence (insurgency?). The deployment is unlikely; a UN operation would amount an acknowledgement by the Mexican federal government that it is unable to provide domestic security within its borders. However unlikely, the deployment would place UN peacekeepers less than a mile from El Paso, Texas. If that does not cause Washington to press the panic button, nothing will.
Christopher R. Albon is a political science Ph.D. specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy.
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It would also be a heyday for the crazies. Throughout my college years in Texas, there were billboards all over the state warning of the impending approach of UN black helicopters.
I know! Can you imagine what happens when Mi-24s are seen flying around with UN markings? Haha.
On a semi-related note, I love a conspiracy theory claiming the New World Order is amassing a huge and secret airborne invasion of the US, but yet cannot censor highway billboard signs warning of its plans.
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