The enemy this time wasn't Communism, it was chaos. But the call to arms was just as clear. And therein lies the key to the peacekeeping industry. In the moral universe of the professional peacekeeper, the enemies are war, chaos, and all the bad stuff that accompanies them. There are no anguished moments in deciding who is right.
Any war becomes a potential target for a peacekeeping intervention.
Of course, that is a heavy weight to bear. It requires that the peacekeeper assert moral superiority over the combatants. Just before Peacekeeping '94 began, Canadian and American newspapers published photographs that Canadian UN peacekeepers had taken of each other beating to death a young Somali boy, Shidane Abukar Arone. Shidane had been found sneaking onto the soldiers' compound in Beled Weyn. During their subsequent trial, and in what is fast becoming Canada's My Lai, it was revealed that the soldiers were members of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front.