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Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008695
An Opening to Disarm Hizballah
[Wall Street Journal] Editorial - Properly conceived, an international stabilization force for southern Lebanon might be a genuine help. We're not talking about the kind of "peacekeeping" mission UN Secretary General Kofi Annan envisions, whose purpose would be to keep the "warring parties" apart. That would only hand Hizballah and Iran a victory by showing they can attack with impunity and the international community will ride to the rescue. The mission of an international force inserted after Israel finishes cutting Hizballah down to size could be to see that Hizballah and the mullahs never regain a military foothold in Lebanon or hold the threat of violence over that country's fledgling democracy.