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To: Ilaine who wrote (25144)	7/25/2006 4:16:10 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541483

Why volunteer for a hopeless and thankless task like this one? I agree. No one wants to be set up for failure. Not to mention useless death to one's countrymen.

To: Ilaine who wrote (25144)	7/25/2006 4:21:51 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541483

What has the world come to when a raggedy ass minority faction in a screwed up dysfunctional "country" (if you can call it that) can't be brought into line by the combined might of the international community? That's when the inmates are running the asylum because the real heavyweights have gone off in 17 separate directions. Coalitions of the willing don't work without will.

To: Ilaine who wrote (25144)	7/25/2006 8:03:22 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541483

You know, I can't see too many countries volunteering to police this border. And so far it's not Hezbollah being the danger: they aren't targeting the UN, even accidentally. news.bbc.co.uk Four United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an observation post in southern Lebanon, the UN has said. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was "shocked" at the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the post. ... The UN in Lebanon says the Israeli air force destroyed the observer post, in which four military observers were sheltering. It said the four, from Austria, Canada, China and Finland, had taken shelter in a bunker under the post after it was earlier shelled 14 times by Israeli artillery. A rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.