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To: Katelew who wrote (196849)	8/11/2006 3:48:05 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thats nonsense Kate. Its all about 1559 and disarming hizbolla. Please get your facts straight.

To: Katelew who wrote (196849)	8/11/2006 4:20:34 PM
From: samtrader	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.

To: Katelew who wrote (196849)	8/11/2006 4:40:49 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

the world is asking israel to stop fighting. a few days ago when there was a french-american proposal, the world, all of a sudden, wasn't interested in having the fighting stop, because hezbollah didn't like the agreement, which might have a chance of stopping hezbollah from killing so many israelis. now, you say the world should insist on israel not finishing the war, yet, the world should not be involved in seeing that hezbollah does not rearm and go back to its bunkers in southern lebanon.