[OT] UN civpol

5 posts ยท May 30 2002 to Jun 1 2002

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:59:46 +0200 (CEST)

Subject: Re: [OT] UN civpol

John Atkinson schrieb:

> This also varies from mission to mission and from

It seems the UN decisionmakers are slowly learning from past mistakes. My
impression is that recent operations are done under more reasonable rules than
the early ones in the Balkans and Ruanda.
> KFOR is a whole 'nother world from, say, UNPROFOR.

And the Germans, Brits, French, Italians, Spanish, Russians, Ukrainians....

> more or less bloody well pacified that crappy little

Greetings

From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>

Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:50:18 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: [OT] UN civpol

> --- KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

> > KFOR is a whole 'nother world from, say, UNPROFOR.

The preposition "we" in this sentence has as an antecedent the noun "KFOR".

The above-listed are part of KFOR.

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 07:49:19 +0200

Subject: Re: [OT] UN civpol

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From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>

Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:50:52 -0400

Subject: RE: Re: [OT] UN civpol

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From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>

Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:31:04 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: [OT] UN civpol

> --- "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:

> > The preposition "we" in this sentence has as an

Since I am a veteran of that Force (Task Force Falcon
2A, the third rotation in-country, June-Dec 2000), I'm
entitled to use the first person plural in regards to KFOR, as does anyone
else with that ribbon on their dress uniform.

> How come that I read 'USA' when you write 'we' ?

That's how I usually use it.