Not worth the paper it's written on (UN ceasefire agreement)

NY Daily News ^ | August 19, 2006

[knighthawk]

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.

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[Dark Skies]

Part of me has suspected from the beginning that this use of the UN for a ceasefire was simply a way for the U.S, Israel, and allies to say to the world, "we gave you a chance and you blew it."

"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.

[Westbrook]

The UN: Where every day is Halloween.

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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[romanesq]

Don't forget all the whores in the basement where Kofi & Co. hold their parties.

[Adder]

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....

[Dixie Yooper]

What are the rest of France's troops so occupied with that they can't afford several thousand for this exercise? Too many deployed in Iraq? No, they aren't taking part in that one... Protecting the homeland from invaders? It's never worked before, why would they bother now?? Clamping down on uprisings in their colonies? They all live in France now so there is no need for that.
The only logical excuse I can come up with is a few hundred soldiers is all they have left of their mighty army.

[Highest Authority]

Coffee Anus and his un ilk are fools!!!

[DB]

The whores are far better than Kofi and crew.

[libstripper]

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.

[AdvisorB]

Every generation has their willing dupes willing to risk the security of their nation and the fate of civlization on a worthless piece of paper. Hope springs eternal when you're a defeatocRAT appeaser with all the backbone of a chocolate e-claire, to paraphrase TR.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

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...

[Polybius]

France until just a few days ago was supposed to be leading this UN force.

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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[ClaireSolt]

The way to combat bad ideas is with better ideas. Unless you convince by persuasion, supression will just recur.

[dasboot]

Aesop wrote a story about great ideas like those the UN is famous for...it's about mice who brainstorm, and come up with a great idea: put a bell around the cat's neck so they'll always know when it's coming. They all congratulated one another on a job well-done!

One rational mouse ruined the party: "Who's gonna put the bell on the cat?"

Hey Koffee: Who will bell this cat? [harhar]

[dasboot]

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.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

The only logical excuse I can come up with is a few hundred soldiers is all they have left of their mighty army.

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.

[johnny7]

At this very moment... Annan is preparing to go to Iran for 'last minute' talks with little Hitler over its nuclear program... the 22nd being the deadline set by the UN. Look for him to pull a steaming turd from his hat with yet another extention... further undermining whatever global resolve has been built. With the help of third-world poobahs and the cowards of Europe... Annan and his UN are bringing us World War III.

They are bringing us exactly what they were created for... to prevent.

[Dixie Yooper]

"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."

Budgeting. I never even considered that one. I guess It's because I have the mindset that the French are way too liberal to have a budget.