Hal Rogers: “Well, reclaiming my time, I have already said to the gentleman that we may yet approve a peacekeeping expenditure for…”

“Well, reclaiming my time, I have already said to the gentleman that we may yet approve a peacekeeping expenditure for Ethiopia. There has been an accord signed since we marked the bill up. That will be forthcoming. We could reprogram money from this account for a peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia. The same is true for Sierra Leone, when there is peace to be kept. But the peacekeepers of the U.N. sent to Sierra Leone are not equipped to fight. They are equipped to keep the peace. We should arm Nigeria to the point that Nigeria can go in and take care of Sankoh and the other rebels that are causing so much havoc in that poor country. But we have to have a military capable force, and Nigeria has it. The U.N. does not want it, nor do we want them to have a war-fighting capability. So Nigeria, I think, is the solution to the Sierra Leone lack of peace. And Nigeria cannot do that unless we equip the Nigerian military force with the power capable to make that happen.”