Wednesday, August 02, 2006
what is half sentience?
The BBC Ten occlock news ran with a story that the PM has called for a ceasefire and anyone who is nott half sentient would not do so ( political editor Nick Robinson). A Israeli spokesman calls for10 more days to finish the job off from Israel within 20 mins or so on Newsnight.
An intl force can deliver a bufffer force that EhudOlmert called for today but that requires security and disarmament. Instead of handwringing its time for the Intl community to mobilise and deploy so that any Israeli occupation is time limited. Thats down to to the UN to get the resolution right first time around and the countries being acceptableto all the interested parties (turkey yes, Iran and Syria no as a working guide with JOrdan, Egyypt and the Gulfstates as yes definites to quote from todays papers).
half sentience will be which states fail to back this and why?
The South needs rebuilding (as did Kosovo and serbia after NATO actions) and KFOR style support to block Hizbollah it doesn't need a media circus egging on the protagonists as was risked in Macedonia save to stop civilian (attackson)
Lebanon needs territorial integrity (this is no KOsovo in that sense) and states need to stop treating it as their chess board funding military terrorism there or for SYria as it strengthens Israeli resolve how they deliver. That means Israel and it means Syria and it means anyone else as well save through UN aid or the government there.. A dollar there in anger is a dollar against ever getting back the Golan for Syria. Damascus should note that as should Tehran.
For crying out loud people are dying in Lebanon yes but not in a Chatila way to date so far as we hear here, but its taken years of this (HIzbollah) to bring it to a head. In a post Tsunami world the Intl community can't be so complacent. In that sense the Intl force and a meaningful ceasefire require strength in both mandate and composition funding and sensitivity to a nation Lebanon that has lifted itself up from the problems of the 1980s. That may require Islamic troops on the ground in S\Lebanon from pro western regimes as well as the quartet. That border thats being crossed was drawn up by the uS and UK yes, but also the French. Hence lets not get divided over this and get a workabole Intl force that can disarmn Hizbollah and do the job right this time in partnership with the democratically elected government in that country which has called for said ceasefire.
In this Blair is right provided he gets that ceasefire in a meaningful and sustainable way. Our questions have got to be in the detail of the matter however
The BBC Ten occlock news ran with a story that the PM has called for a ceasefire and anyone who is nott half sentient would not do so ( political editor Nick Robinson). A Israeli spokesman calls for10 more days to finish the job off from Israel within 20 mins or so on Newsnight.
An intl force can deliver a bufffer force that EhudOlmert called for today but that requires security and disarmament. Instead of handwringing its time for the Intl community to mobilise and deploy so that any Israeli occupation is time limited. Thats down to to the UN to get the resolution right first time around and the countries being acceptableto all the interested parties (turkey yes, Iran and Syria no as a working guide with JOrdan, Egyypt and the Gulfstates as yes definites to quote from todays papers).
half sentience will be which states fail to back this and why?
The South needs rebuilding (as did Kosovo and serbia after NATO actions) and KFOR style support to block Hizbollah it doesn't need a media circus egging on the protagonists as was risked in Macedonia save to stop civilian (attackson)
Lebanon needs territorial integrity (this is no KOsovo in that sense) and states need to stop treating it as their chess board funding military terrorism there or for SYria as it strengthens Israeli resolve how they deliver. That means Israel and it means Syria and it means anyone else as well save through UN aid or the government there.. A dollar there in anger is a dollar against ever getting back the Golan for Syria. Damascus should note that as should Tehran.
For crying out loud people are dying in Lebanon yes but not in a Chatila way to date so far as we hear here, but its taken years of this (HIzbollah) to bring it to a head. In a post Tsunami world the Intl community can't be so complacent. In that sense the Intl force and a meaningful ceasefire require strength in both mandate and composition funding and sensitivity to a nation Lebanon that has lifted itself up from the problems of the 1980s. That may require Islamic troops on the ground in S\Lebanon from pro western regimes as well as the quartet. That border thats being crossed was drawn up by the uS and UK yes, but also the French. Hence lets not get divided over this and get a workabole Intl force that can disarmn Hizbollah and do the job right this time in partnership with the democratically elected government in that country which has called for said ceasefire.
In this Blair is right provided he gets that ceasefire in a meaningful and sustainable way. Our questions have got to be in the detail of the matter however
# posted by James @ 1:25 am 
