Posted on 08/21/2006 4:49:18 AM PDT by libstripper
Most U.N. resolutions don't have the shelf-life of a gallon of milk, which isn't always a bad thing. But in the case of Resolution 1701--the cease-fire agreement for Lebanon and Israel adopted unanimously this month by the Security Council--things seem to be going sour even faster than that. And that is cause for serious unease.
On Thursday, Jacques Chirac confirmed a Le Monde report that his government was prepared to offer only some 200 combat engineers (in addition to the 200 French troops already in Lebanon) to what is supposed to be the resolution's centerpiece: A 15,000-man U.N. force that will help the Lebanese army patrol their southern border and ensure that Hezbollah will no longer use the area as a staging ground for future attacks against Israel.
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" True, but the US did not make a troop commitment that was part of the cease fire and then renege, as the French are doing."
You caved to international pressure. That is what counts for the french.
"Foreigners already ridicule the US due to Bush, I would not expect different should Hillary or Pelosi ascend."
You should. The media (European and American) only ridicule republicans. The US itself is the greatest source of anti-americanism. If americans (those we see and hear) tells us that the president is an idiot and the US is an imperialistic warmonger, who are we to argue.
"Also, French military prowess has been a topic of humor going on 80 years now, unless I missed some great exploits that haven't been circulated."
Yes I know, but it just seem so pointless and petty.
"Are you French, by any chance?"
Nope, Norwegian.
"The remarkable thing is that our posters on this issue have all held the view that this cease fire wasn't worth the paper it was written on, and for the reasons that are now developing. It's astounding that the allegedly normally intelligent double domes at the State Department, who supposedly have greater knowledge of these things than we mere peons, couldn't see this would inevitably happen."
and that worries me!
That would work only in assuming the the idiots at the UN can learn..... period(s)
What gets me is that for years political leaders around the world have been saying "Don't count on the UN in the war on terror." And yet....
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert bought into the agreement based on what now appear to have been insincere pledges that European troops would dominate the U.N. force. "
No. He just wanted a way out since he was clueless how to handle the mess.
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