Posted on 08/19/2006 4:33:45 AM PDT by knighthawk
We're just as surprised as we can be - aren't you? - to discover that so far not much is happening with this big, robust peacekeeping force that the UN pledged to dispatch pronto to preside over brotherhood and goodwill forevermore in the promised lands as the Security Council forced an end to Israel's war of self-defense against Hezbollah. Italy, standup kind of country that it is, commits to supply up to 3,000 troops in short order, and places like Finland and Bangladesh have offered contributions as well, but nearly everybody else is scrambling furiously to squirrel out of any significant participation. Chiefly France, naturally.
France until just a few days ago was supposed to be leading this UN force. Now France thinks it can't spare more than a few hundred soldiers. Reason, so stated: The UN ceasefire resolution does not sufficiently spell out the rules of engagement. France, you'll recall, was a co-author of the very resolution it is complaining about.
So it is unclear exactly when all these UN boots are going to be on the ground in southern Lebanon to back up all those Lebanese soldiers who are moving southward to secure the Israeli border country, but who are, of course, not for a single minute going to dream of tangling with the Hezbollah gangsters, who are clearly the big guns on the block.
Neither, it appears, will the UN peacekeepers, at whatever point they start arriving. Disarm Hezbollah? That's not the UN's job, says Secretary General Kofi Annan, that's the Lebanese government's job. No, replies the Lebanese government, that's not our job. And even Secretary of State Rice is left to talk about Hezbollah disarming voluntarily. Well, then. Never mind all these ongoing UN demands that Hezbollah surrender its weapons. Doesn't seem to be anybody's job to see to it that this happens, does it?
The UN ceasefire resolution is a grotesque joke, another utterly worthless piece of paper to come out of Turtle Bay.
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
"Now we'll do the job you agreed to do...we'll disarm Hezbollah."
The only thing that must happen next is that Olmert, Livni, and Peretz must go. They might mean well but they are inexperienced at war.
The UN building in New York should be razed, the VISAs of its "diplomats" revoked, and the nest of spies, pirates, and brigands, along with their groupies and junkies, broken up and returned to whatever hellholes they crawled out of.
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Don't forget all the whores in the basement where Kofi & Co. hold their parties.
We should not have agreed to this ceasefire in the first place because any one should have forseen this very result.
Unless Israel wanted an out....
Coffee Anus and his un ilk are fools!!!
The whores are far better than Kofi and crew.
I urge anyone who hasn't done so to view "Birth of a Nation" and then say with a straight face that, when a terrorist group conceals its weapons a regalia, it becomes any less terrorist or less dangerous. Hezbollah is doing the same thing in southern Lebanon that the KKK did in the south in the 1870s.
yup, they're going to double their already present 200 troops... up to a total of 400, woohoo! Wonder how many hotel rooms are booked for them? I have worked VERY closely with French military personnel, back when berlin was still walled...
the young conscripts had more intestinal fortitude than most of the officers, IMO...
The last time that France played a major role in a U.N. force during a serious conflict ..........
Two unidentified French UNPROFOR (UN Protection Force) soldiers sit handcuffed together at an un-named facility in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, which is under Serb control, Monday May 29, 1995.
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One rational mouse ruined the party: "Who's gonna put the bell on the cat?"
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That story was written about, what, three thousand years ago? The rational spoiler of a mouse musta been the first Republican. Failure of implementation was blamed on Bush, IIRC.
Of course you are right. Heaven forbid they spend their tax dollars on anything like defense. They need every Euro they can get for their foolish and irresponsible social programs. They will never have enough to fund them, so whatever defense budget they do have just gets smaller and smaller.
They are bringing us exactly what they were created for... to prevent.
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