[Wall Street Journal] Michael Young - Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt describes the recent visit to Beirut of Condoleezza Rice, and particularly the international effort to set up an expanded peacekeeping force in South Lebanon to end the fighting: "At first they said they wanted to create a buffer zone of 20 kilometers to put in an international force. But what does that mean when Hizballah can fire rockets over your back? Now there is a new formula: the demilitarization of the South." Jumblatt is dubious. "Rice didn't clarify how the international force would deploy. As I've told the Americans: As long as Syria can send weapons to Hizballah, there will be no change in the situation. Not with this regime in Damascus. We need a force that can cover all of Lebanon, like in Kosovo. Monitor the Syrian border, then talk."
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