A reponse to Vance Serchuk's "A Unique UN Scandal," whichappeared in the August 26, 2005,New York Sun.

The Brahimi Report is so badly flawed on UN peacekeeping doctrine, the centerpiece on which its other recommendations must turn, that all of the rest of its proposals must be viewed with enormous skepticism.

The risks and pitfalls for the United States, and indeed for the United Nations itself, in pursuing these flawed and potentially dangerous policies have rightly attracted extensive Congressional attention during the Clinton Administration.

Although this brief survey of five current case studies of UN peacekeeping is necessarily summary in nature, I believe that the evidence forms a sufficient pattern to conclude that the UN is substantially overextended and in danger of becoming more so.

The UNis involved in conflicts, or is considering involvement, where it has neither the authority nor the competence to be effective, and its instinctive reaction to difficulties it has encountered has been simply to do more of the same.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

The Japanese military is emerging from decades of pacifism. But do the country's political leaders have the vision and the will to make the country strong again?

But with its long and troubled history in the Middle East region, the idea of sending a peacekeeping force should be dead on arrival.