This initiative for foreign troops to keep Hezbollah at bay on the border of Israel obviously is going nowhere in the short term. This means Israel will be left with the job of eradicating as much of the terrorist group as they can until the world gets its act together. Israel is up to the task and will do a far better job of it than any armed force under U.N. control.
"The challenge of creating a viable international force to secure IsraelÂ?s border with Lebanon was captured by Nahum Barnea, a columnist for the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. The European foreign ministers were enthusiastic, he said.
Â?They only had one small condition Â? for the force to be made up of soldiers from another country,Â? Mr. Barnea wrote. Â?The Germans recommended France; the French recommended Egypt, and so on. It is doubtful whether there is a single country in the West currently volunteering to lay down its soldiers on HezbollahÂ?s fence.Â?"
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