Then why promise things for a ceasefire when there was a question as to which you would deliver? This is the problem with the UN in general and this ceasefire in particular. No one wants to enforce it. Stop Hezbollah from re-arming? nice on paper but who wants to get between these fanatics and their guns? Make sure they don't re-occupy southern Lebanon? How are we going to stop them when they have guns and we don't have any mandate to even defend ourselves? Keep the peace? Riiiiight. This ceasefire was dead before it was even signed because no one wants to actually get between Hezbollah and their desires.
The only ones who actually want to be there under a UN mandate are Muslim countries who have no diplomatic ties to Israel and even call for its destruction. Not something that makes me confident in the UN or this ceasefire. They can make all the official claims they want against Israel, look the other way when Hezbollah does anything and if any of them are hurt by Israeli reprisals on Hezbollah attacks, all the more fuel for the anti-Israel fire. And this is not paranoid. Just look at the record from troops from countries with diplomatic ties to Israel (at least the record the UN shows publicly as opposed to the ones they send back to their countries...like that Canadian one). >I personally don't find it unreasonable that a soldier would want to > know if he can shoot back. But what do I know? Check with Tim on that. > The other concern I have heard raised is that nobody wants to > replicate the fiasco in Sarejevo. Which sounds like a plan to me too. > Let's avoid another Sarejevo by all means.b > > On 8/20/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll fill in for Gruss here and say: >> "So France, who was pushing so hard for this ceasefire and promised to be >> a >> huge troop supporter of it has shown their true colors by sending far >> (FAR) >> fewer troops and calling on the EU and UN to define when they can defend >> themselves. Basically, they are afraid of doing the job laid out in the >> ceasefire." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213678 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
