Westerners Flee Lebanon As Fight Continues

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{"commentId":209477,"authorDomain":"kcmike"}

This is a welcome break and the weekend was an opportune time for the major powers to get involved. Hezbollah would probably be attritted through air strikes and if they perceived their strength diminishing rapidly might have attempted to further escalate.

Here's the rub:

the deployment of the Lebanese army in all of south Lebanon and the removal of Hezbollah from the region," [Olmert said]

The Lebanese cannot control Hezbollah and if the Lebanese Army could control territory then the Syrian Army would not have spent nearly 30 years in Lebanon.

Maybe the demand of a Lebanese Army presence can be negotiated to a multinational force of nations acceptable to Israel but it would have to be a force that was willing and able to engage Hezbollah on the ground because it's hard to see how Israel can accept anything other than a significant change in the security environment at this point.

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Reply#1 - Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:54 PM EDT
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More horror stories here.

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    Reply#2 - Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:59 PM EDT
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