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August 11, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - UN to Possibly Disarm Hezbollah if Cease-Fire Takes Hold

by Ferdinand T Cat

MIchelle Malkin describes the terms of the UN cease-fire agreement. ABC News, a less reliable source, claims Israel has accepted those terms. At this time, the exact language of the cease-fire resolution (SC #1701) is not available on the UN web site; however, the cease-fire is to be enforced by the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The UNIFIL will receive 15,000 additional troops, and their mandate is to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the establishment of the Lebanese army as the controlling military force in southern Lebanon. This has always been their mandate, and if 15,000 additional troops are insufficient to the task, I'm sure we can keep piling more on until we find a troop level that works.

I am perhaps being unfair. When the full text of resolution 1701 becomes available, it's possible there will be strong language requiring that Hezbollah be disarmed. I wonder, however, if the UNIFIL will be allowed to conduct house-to-house searches to find rocket launchers, and if they intend to station troops around Lebanon for the purpose of preventing more rockets from coming in.

We all want peace, of course, but this may be nothing of the sort. If Hezbollah decides to attack Israel again, its human shields will not be Lebanese civilians but an armed military force with international backing. Should that force fail to take corrective action, Israel is truly cooked.

I would rather see Hezbollah smashed into nonexistence, but Israel and Lebanon may be unable to pay the required cost for that. The UN solution will work only if the UN is serious about taking away Hezbollah's weapons. You and I may think that's unlikely, but it's the only hope for a happy outcome to all this. As such, our goal in the coming weeks should be to ask that the hope become a reality.

I've put my superior brain to the task, and I think the following recruiting poster will help.

Join the UNIFIL, because it would be nice to have a UN peacekeeping force that actually kept the peace

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to Pursuing Peace, Cao's Peacekeeping, Woman Honor Thy Peace, Adam's Peacekeeping, TMH's Cease-Fire Bits, MacBros' International Force, Comedian Jenée: Diplomats are Idiots, Madman Returns, The Crazy Peacekeeping of Samantha Burns, Outside the UNIFIL, Jo's Security Council, and Basil's Neverending Search for a Successful UN Organization.

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Great post CC!..Ceasefire for Israel = suicide. God help them if they go along with it..sigh.


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