This article from Le Conservateur raises the issue of the potential danger to French soldiers in Southern Lebanon as well as the notion that perhaps Hezbollah really has been disabled after all. We can only hope this is true, but anyone who knows the past will not doubt for one minute that Hezbollah will re-organize, re-mobilize and re-arm. How long this will take no one knows, but Iran will pitch in and help, I'm sure.
One can rejoice at the arbitrated end to the conflict, but I can't help thinking that the resolution voted on yesterday by the UN Security Council appears very dangerous, especially if French soldiers are to be deployed in large numbers.
It does not resolve the problem of Hezbollah. Yes, the cards are now in the camp of the Lebanese government. But it is to be feared that if Lebanon does not address the problem, nothing can prevent a future conflict. Chirac's idea of making the soldiers human shields to protect Hezbollah is still another catastrophic error of our foreign policy, one more fawning gesture to our Arab and Muslim "allies", who are all working to destroy us behind our backs.
The American vote in favor of this resolution can be interpreted in many ways, in my modest opinion.
First of all as a "legal" way of saving face for its ally Israel in case the conflict bogged down - if Hezbollah bases in Southern Lebanon have been destroyed and its potential seriously reduced, more significant gains cannot be achieved without a dangerous land offensive or politically risky bombings.
Or, one might think that from the Israeli-American point of view, the war's objective has been attained, justifying the end to hostilities. As the Lebanese blogger Vox believes, the Shiite exiles currently concentrated around their so-called resistance movement will encounter difficulties once they return to a ravaged Southern Lebanon, where the work of Hezbollah - ruling through a Mafia-style network of social assistance and through threats - will be more difficult.
"For the Hezbollah, the real cost of the war will be known in a few months, when the Shia refugees come back to their destroyed neighbourhood. The Shia community may forgive the Hezbollah this time, but it will certainly not forgive the Party of God for making the same mistake twice."
Be that as it may, once again I do not understand why UNIFIL should be the human shield for these scum. If one French soldier dies for Hezbollah, may Jacques Chirac go to hell.
The photo of the Gazelle helicopter is from Answers.
4 comments:
Are you for real?
The Frogs are the enemy just as much as the head-hackers.
I hope they are dumb enough to put several thousand of their troops in there.
And I hope Hezbollah carries on where they left off in the mid-1980's, and gets back into the Blowing Up Frog Barracks business with enthusiasm.
Iranian $$ via Hizballah is paying for the rebuilding RIGHT NOW, all you have to do is sign up.
That is a POWERFUL force to ensure strength.
anon, are **you** for real?
We have allies in every nation.
Not all France is Jacques Chirac, just as not all the US is Howard Dean. Or would you argue otherwise about the US..?
There are groups where the majority are not on our side, and France certainly qualifies as one of these... but that doesn't mean the minority should be tarred with the same brush and condemned for the crimes of the majority.
Chances are, if someone is actually in the French army, despite all the propaganda they undergo every day about "pacifism", then they are more likely, not less, to be on our side, sharing our beliefs; why wish them harm?
If someone from Connecticut joins the US armed forces so that he can risk his life for his country, do you hope he gets killed simply because he's from a blue state?? What kind of moral position is that?
Is your hatred of France and all french so deep that you're willing to dismiss the few over there that are worth supporting for their pro-US and pro-Israel values? Because they exist, they **are** over there. The fact that you are in ignorance of them does not eliminate their existence.
There is a lot of double talk in France - some of it self-serving, vis a vis the US, but who knows what certain pols really think of hte large and dangerous Muslim populaiton in their midst - but also evidence that they are growing a spine faster than some of their neighbors, i.e. England. Good to see you here Tiberge.
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