U.N.! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

Courtesy of the AP, we get this cheery story of U.N. incompetence:

KHARTOUM, Sudan – Gunmen ambushed a United Nations convoy in Darfur in the first attack against the peacekeepers since their mission began this month, the U.N. said Tuesday. A Sudanese driver was wounded and in critical condition after the U.N. road convoy was attacked late Monday in a volatile area near Sudan’s border with Chad, the U.N. mission, known as UNAMID, said in a statement.

A fuel tanker truck was destroyed by the assailants, and an armored personnel carrier was damaged, the U.N. said. Peacekeepers said they did not return fire and that no U.N. staff was injured.

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“The is the first time UNAMID is attacked, and we hope it will be the last,” mission spokesman Noureddine Mezni told The Associated Press. “We are in Darfur to bring peace, not to fight.”

The U.N. mission is the latest international attempt to quell the violence in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have fled to refugee camps in nearly five years of fighting between the Sudanese government and local rebels.

A previous African Union force was unable the end the chaos and suffered dozens of casualties.

Under a compromise with the Sudanese government, the new U.N. force incorporates the African peacekeepers already deployed and is to remain predominantly African.

The mission is due to number 26,000 peacekeepers and police, but the deployment is far behind schedule and Western countries have so far failed to commit heavy fighting equipment such as helicopters.

Why do we keep funding this incompetence bureaucracy whose sole purpose is to provide a good income to various corrupt bureaucrats?

What good is a “peacekeeping force” that doesn’t return fire even when fired upon?  If you’re in Sudan not to fight, how the hell do you “quell the violence”?  Strong language?  Letter writing campaigns?  American Idol reruns?

Given this level of incompetence, why should Western countries commit heavy fighting equipment?  The U.N. is in Sudan not to fight, but to “bring peace” — presumably by choruses of Kumbayah and sharing heartfelt stories of overcoming violence through dialogue.  Heavy weapons are for fighting, which the U.N. isn’t there to do, and apparently is unable or unwilling to do — even when fired upon.

Folks who want to subordinate our national defense to these clowns are plain old crazy, idiotically ignorant of reality, or enemies of the United States.

-TS