Posted by
crosspatch on Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:58:08 AM
The French now seem to be backing away from the notion that a security force should be in place in Southern Lebanon before Israel withdraws. This worries me because the idea that Israel should withdraw and some kind of beefed up UNIFIL should "monitor" the situation seems to me to ensure that we are destined to repeat the war that is going on now.
Hezbollah is not a government. They are a copy of Iran's ruling party (also called Hezbollah) and their ultimate goal is to copy Iran's Islamic Republic in Lebanon. But in the meantime, they are not a government. The world can not sanction them. The UN has nothing in their array of options to use to enforce any resolutions they might break. In fact, the UN can not even pass a resolution against Hezbollah because Hezbollah is not a nation-state.
If Israel would totally withdraw, Hezbollah would return to those areas within 24 hours. If the plan is for Israel to withdraw before deciding on any buffer force, then we are talking insanity.
The UN is a feeble, corrupt, ineffective, bunch of cronies who are unable to produce anything besides marks on paper. And so because of this foolishness of even considering an Israeli withdrawal before putting a real buffer force into place, many more people are going to be killed. The French and the Arabs could save many lives both now and in the future if they would agree to some mechanism that ends Hezbollah's armed presence in Southern Lebanon. Instead, they seem to be taking a path that will increase and prolong the suffering of people on both sides.
The seems the international diplomatic community has gone completely insane and is willing to sacrifice as many lives as required to avoid actually having to act. Frankly, it sickens me.