The deployment of a multinational force wearing the blue helmets of the UN to the Lebanon-Israel border is going to change the dynamics in the area, for better and for worse, I think, more better than worse, I hope.
I can't wait to find out which countries are sending troops. I assume France will be one of them.
Once these troops are deployed, the countries with forces committed to the region will have a stake in preserving peace in the region.
I see this as a win for Israel, and perhaps one solution to the problem of Iranian nuclear weapons.
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I don't see all out war in the future, nor do I see it as a solution.
Bringing up WWI is sort of weird here -- WWI was a really stupid war that was blundered into, and then nobody was able to back down because of ossified social structure. The wrong war in every way possible, it accomplished nothing of value that anybody's ever been able to explain to my satisfaction, except for the destruction of the Ottoman empire, which is what got us into the situation we're in now in the Middle East, so even that wasn't much use.
But "The Guns of August" sounds very poetic, like it ought to mean something.
When I think of Iran under Ahmadinejad and Syria under Bashar al-Asad, it's not WWI I think of, at all. |
