Israel has agreed to abide by a proposed UN sponsored cease-fire. This comes only a few hours after Olmert and his cabinet approved an expanded ground war. It is not known whether Lebanon and Hizbollah will agree to it.
This is all fine and nice. But it is a bit like getting a midget to run down the basketball court and slam-dunk in Shaquille O’Neal’s face. The midget might agree to try, but it ain’t gonna happen.
As Ambassador Dennis Ross is explaining to the Faux News morons, the resolution basically says that Hizbollah can no longer be a militia. King George III might as well have told George Washington that his rag tag group of colonists could no longer be a militia. He might as well have asked his viceroys to crack down on our Revolutionary Army and disarm them.
There is some good news in this, however. The UN has agreed to dispatch 12,000 troops (where they will come from us anyone’s guess). And it puts the onus on Lebanon and Hizbollah to agree to a cease-fire, rather than have it all hang on the Israelis. It’s not much. There is a glimmer of hope here. However, it isn’t going to result in victory for Israel, and it is not what this whole venture was launched to accomplish. I have said from the beginning, these UN negotiations are designed to fail. The endgame is regime change in Syria.
