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摘要

When it comes to preventing mass slaughter of civilians, the United Nations guard dog often seems less Rottweiler than Chihuahua. The world body does a fair job of policing quiet borders in places like Cyprus or trucking in food and supplies to starving refugees. But it has proved itself woefully incompetent at stopping wars and genocide in places like Rwanda and Bosnia. The reason is obvious: The U.N. relies on member states to supply its soldiers, and no country wishes to place its best troops in harm's way merely to defend the refugees of a foreign land. So the U.N. tends to send into war zones professional but cautious European and often ill-trained Third World troops without the equipment and rules of engagement needed to impose orde.