We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:39 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack Says Middle East Cease Fire Will "Strengthen Democracy In Lebanon." "The U.N.-declared cease-fire in Lebanon, if fully implemented[emphasis mine], would be a strategic setback for Iran and Syria because it would strengthen democracy in Lebanon and stabilize the border with Israel, the State Department said Monday. 'You will not have Hezbollah roaming freely in the south of Lebanon,' spokesman Sean McCormack said. 'Iran and Syria will not have had the ability to rearm Hezbollah.'" (Barry Schweid, "U.S. Touts Mideast Cease-Fire Prospects," The Associated Press, 8/14/06) If the peacekeepers are simply a larger version of... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:18:23 -0600 If this proposed UN force is as effective at separating the combatants as the ones in, say, Rwanda or Bosnia were, then we can look forward to renewed combat when 1. Israel finally gets fed up with Hezbollah rockets being fired from inside the UN "Peacekeepers'" compounds or 2. Hezbollah decides to make hostages of the UNFOR troops from infidel countries... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html#comment-49093 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html#comment-49093 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:10:32 -0600 I think the surprise would be being surprised. wait a mo i'm supposed to think positive. Ohmmmmm http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html#comment-49091 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/08/really_i_have_such_confidence.html#comment-49091 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:56:47 -0600