The Mess Continues
So the Israel army chief admits failures, while Olmert tries on “support the government or the terrorists win” from Karl Rove’s playbook.
Just to make everything even more complicated, Syria warns over UN peacekeepers. Syria says if they station UN peacekeepers along the Lebanon-Syria border, they will close the border to everyone. Lebanon gets most of its imports from or through Syria.
While France boosts Lebanon peace force by two battalions and Italy has promised 3,000 troops, Chirac wonders where the massive UN peacekeeping force augmented by 15,000 Lebanese troops are going to stay in the relatively small area that has been pounded to dust by recent combat.
There are few passable roads, fewer bridges, a much reduced number of buildings, cluster munitions and land mines all over, little electricity or drinking water, but they are is now going to have 30,000 “visitors”.
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