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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ritten: [qb] Hezbollah sees the civilians as either martrys or as infedals, since Lebanon has Christians and Muslims, so why would they care? As for UN resolutions, how many of those get anywhere where the US isn't pushing them for our own agenda? As Lebenon has no real strategic, or tactical, value we didn't. The point that it would have firmed up control of the east end of the Med seems to have been missed by or government. That, and the deaths of 200+ Marines caused the public to not really care about Lebenon. [/qb][/QUOTE]True, true...it'd be tough to garner enthusaism for that mission after the bombing. Still, the U.S. is not the U.N.- or so I've been told- and not [i]every[/i] resolution needs to have the U.S. spearhead it. Some ex-General was on CNN last night talking about how when Israel left Lebanon, Israel thought it would show they were serious about wanting peace, but Hezbollah (and much of the Arab world) declared it as sign of weakness. Same with the pullout from Gaza- the P.L.O. declared "a great victory" and vowed to "drive Israel into the sea". Later on PBS, I saw Thomas Friedman (of the [i]N.Y. Times[/i]) takling aout how the key to regional stability is in seperating Iran from Syria and getting (the slightly more resaonable Syria) to call of Hezbollah. He went into detail about how the US and Saudi Arabia would have to play good cop-bad cop and eventually give Syria concessions to make it happen. I normally disagree with Friedman's world-views (particularly on Globalization) but he was making sense last night (or I was [i]really[/i] tired). [QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [qb] That Israel, of all countries, should talk about UN resolutions... [/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah, but the U.N. cant have it both ways [i]either[/i]- it has to uphold it's own resolutions if it expects any of it's members to abide by them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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