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Friday, 18 August 2006
... and it damned sure ain't over yet -- Continued
Contributed by Bill Faith

Continued from ... and it damned sure ain't over yet -- Continued

The French Surrender ... Again

After insisting on a cease-fire in Lebanon and demanding international action to separate the combatants, the French have performed one of their traditional about-faces and refused to substantially contribute to the effort. Efforts to create a strong international force to support the Lebanese Army centered on commitments by the French of up to 5,000 troops. Now the Chirac government says they could scrape up maybe 200, if they're not too busy on their August vacations:

France on Thursday rebuffed pleas by U.N. officials to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back efforts to deploy an international military force to help police a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to U.N. and French officials.

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If nothing else showed the uselessness of the United Nations, this latest folly should convince everyone of it. The UN fancies itself as the modern mechanism of peace. However, in its sixty years of being, the only accomplishment it has achieved has been the prolongation of every conflict it enters. The UN provides no solutions; they fix all disputes in amber and hope that the boredom kills them. That strategy has proven singularly unsuccessful, and nothing demonstrates that better than the UNIFIL force that the UN wants to bolster. Most people did not know that the UN had a peacekeeping force on the Israel-Lebanon border for almost thirty years -- and the reason why is because they have proven themselves nonentities in the effort to stop war.

[Read the whole thing here.]

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The Real Ugly American: France: a nation of cowards

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Charles Krauthammer: Deja vu all over again

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 18, 2006 at 12:06 PM in Bill Faith, France, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamism Delenda Est, Israel, Lebanon | Permalink

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