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Originally Posted by shinerbock
I find it ironic you consider the deaths of those UN officials to be so much more important than the thousands of Israeli deaths that the UN continuously ignores and condones.
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Yes to me the officer that was the Lt. in charge of my infantry training platoon, and the Cpt. that commanded my company in Bosnia is much more personal and therefore important. Paeta was an extremely intelligent and dedicated officer that I and others will mourn the loss of, a man who always made an effort to protect the innocent, and who wasn't afraid to backdown in that goal. Paeta came from a long military line, and he was proud of his families history as honourable soldiers - in fact his grandfather was executed by the Germans for helping organize the evacuation of Jews from Denmark.
I can tell you that he took very seriously his duty as an observer on the Lebanese-Israeli border; his emails always talk of his frustration in dealing with the intractability and hostility of the IDF, and his overwhelming disgust with the hatred of the Hezbollah radicals... but he never let this stop him from trying to humanize each side for the other. I can also tell you that he would methodically record and report any observation (he believe in the theory that too many reports was better than too little), so I'm sure more and more info about the bombardment and fatal strike will come to light.
So again I don't think its' ironic at all that I consider the death of this unarmed and trapped UN observer, Canadian soldier, and email-pal a great tragedy... made more all the more galling in the criminal means of his death.
