'Peace-Keeping' -- A Misleading Fictional Term

elena spectra at elits.rousse.bg
Fri Sep 10 05:39:22 PDT 1999


Missing link in evolution:


>
>Note, by the way, that in a African-origin trade magazine on arms and
>military systems, the Somalia intervention was referred to by a US
>soldier as 'peace enforcement'. I think this is a very illuminating term.
>
Our media are cuter: peace-keepers evolved into peace-makers (mid-April) and peace-enforcers (but I haven't traces exactly when; end of May, I think)



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