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To: Katelew who wrote (196849)	8/11/2006 4:20:34 PM
From: samtrader	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Chapter 7 lays the premise that the UN Security Council can finally be an effective body, instead of a talkshop of hot air. Chapter 7 will finally empower the UN troops to back UN Resolution 1559 with force, instead of useless 'peacekeeping' forces that do nothing but watch Hezbollah arm themselves and fire rockets. The UN is adept at passing resolutions that have zero meaning and no enforcement. It risks becoming no better than the League of Nations that couldn't prevent World War II. This is the world's war whether we like it or not. There are much larger issues at stake for the world here, namely Iran and their nuclear weapons policy. Iran effective wanted to create a diversion during the G8 meeting from its nuclear policies by giving the go-ahead to Hezbollah to create an 'incident'; they however miscalculated the response. Now if Israel backs down in any way it will make Hezbollah (and in reality Iran) kingmakers in Lebanon and impose their hegemony in the Middle East. We (the democratic world) have much to lose if Israel loses.

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