Don't panic Mr Rumsfeld!

Apparently, a good proportion of the peacekeeping forces in Darfur are from Rwanda. It's a novel approach I suppose, and certainly nobody could question the Rwandan military's experience in dealing with the brutal massacre of unarmed civilians. I just can't help feeling that although wiping the entire population of an area would indeed be an effective way of restoring the peace, it's probably not what those bleeding-heart liberals at the UN had in mind.

On the subject of novel military approaches, the Pentagon is considering raising the recruitment age to 42 (about that same age that most regular British soldiers are pensioned off). It's claimed that the older recruit's extra experience and education are worth the extra drain on supplies of Preparation-H, Steradent etc. The New York Times cites the case of a 40 year old IT manager with no military experience complaining that he's being denied the chance to use his skills in the service of America. Quite how advising some murderous Tikriti activist that he needs to take his issues 'offline' or 'think outside the box' is likely to diffuse the situation is unclear, but since nothing else seems to be working over there what the hell.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the OAP-Team