Posted on 08/28/2006 5:22:20 AM PDT by IrishMike
What could possibly make the Lebanon situation worse today than it was yesterday? Only yesterday the hapless Israeli defense minister, Amir Peretz, said that Israel expected the "international community" to take control of Lebanon's border crossings. Peretz's pointless whine was in response to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement on Saturday that the new UN force in Lebanon won't either disarm Hizballah terrorists or try to interdict shipments of weapons to Hizballah from Syria. But what Peretz said changed nothing. The Son of UNIFIL force won't do anything to inconvenience Hizballah or its Syrian and Iranian suppliers.
But yes, today, things are worse. Kofi Annan is in Lebanon. He's on a grand tour of the Middle East, with other stops to be made in Damascus, Tehran, and wherever else His Excellency the SecGen goes. Kofi is laboring manfully to increase history's judgment of his performance in office which now would fairly place him somewhere below Boss Tweed and above Jimmy Carter. To accomplish that elevation, Annan will reprise his performance of 1998.
For those who forgive and forget too quickly, Annan -- without the sanction of the Security Council -- took it upon himself to visit Baghdad in February 1998. There he met with Saddam Hussein and negotiated away the inspection regimen that Amb. Richard Butler, then chief UN arms inspector in Iraq, had fought to maintain. Annan excluded Butler and his team from meetings in which Annan negotiated a "memorandum of understanding" with Saddam's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, which placed unworkable restrictions on Butler's team and doomed the inspections to failure. ...... Annan visited Saddam and gave away the terms of the inspections that had been established by UN Security Council resolution. He acted on his own authority, which, as Secretary General, under the UN Charter, he doesn't have.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
And this is surprising how? These crooks at the UN were bought and paid before a LONG TIME AGO with petrodollars. Nothing surprising here...
Even more proof that Komrade Kofi is trying to undermine any chance of peace between Israel and Lebanon. Does he think that Israel is going to sit back, make nice and allow Hezbollah to regroup/ re-arm? Guess again Komrade...
Israeli general plots war with Iran
By Harry de Quetteville
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060827-122213-1606r.htm
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
August 27, 2006
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