 Why did Rashid join the UN?
"We're from the UN Inspector Corps," Sergeant Rashid said. Bearing the Scourge of Africa, Rashid struggled toward it. Two types of recruits are accepted by the UN Inspector Corps: those with a fanatic loyalty to the ideals of peace and world order, and those who are loyal to nothing but themselves. The UN Inspector Corps had been founded to enforce the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty of 1966. Trained to use small arms and gas weapons, they guarded certain borders, bodyguarded diplomats and UN officials, even put down riots that threatened international peace. As the UN evolved into a strong world government, the UN Inspector Corps steadily acquired new powers. Rather than resign, he accepted punishment which assigned him to weeks of dull, filthy extra labor. One power implied in the UN Charter no Secretary General or Inspector General had ever tried to use. Men planted bases on the moon and in four years, 1978-82, ringed the world with matter transmitters; but the black population of Africa still struggled toward political equality. He began a propaganda war against neighboring South Africa, promising the liberation of that strife-torn land. The United States and Russia, trying not to get entangled, asked for more investigation by the UN. They would enter Belderkan, arrest Umluana and try him by due process before the World Court. But then they would have spent hours flying over Africa, with Belderkan fighters in hot pursuit, other nations joining the chase and the world uproar gaining volume. "There's no military base near Miaka," Rashid said.
 Rashid joined the UN because he wants world peace at any cost.
 Rashid joined the UN to get away from a gang called The Golden Spacemen.  Rashid joined the UN because he wants world peace at any cost.  Rashid joined the UN after he was fired from Cambridge.  Rashid joined the UN because he wanted to go to war.