An update to today’s column, posted on Thursday, 10:00 pm PST, in which I speculated that some sort of “international force” to supplant the IDF would be created. Bloomberg News reports Friday morning:
“Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she wants a ‘robust’’ international military force to try to oust Hezbollah forces from southern Lebanon, as she prepares to leave on a diplomatic mission to the region next week.
“…Any military force must be ‘robust enough” to supplant Hezbollah in southern Lebanon where it can launch attacks on Israel, she said. If not ‘we’re going to be back here in the next few months,’ Rice said.”
Which prompts me to come up with a nifty new slogan:
Antiwar.com – the News Before It Happens.
As I said in my column, this will forge the links of a new Anti-Shi’ite Front, a broad coalition of forces aligned against the “Shia Crescent” — as Jordan’s King Abdullah nervously puts it — that will be prepared for future action. The War Party is marching down the road to Tehran: Beirut and Damascus are just stops along the way.