|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101057.html
There's a Consensus that Hizballah Must Be Weakened and Contained
[Washington Post] Editorial - The U.S., Israel, and the Lebanese government continue to seek the same outcome to the war. That is the removal of Hizballah's militia from the Lebanese-Israeli border as well as steps toward its disarmament; the deployment of the Lebanese army in the south; and the extension of the Lebanese government's sovereignty to all of the country's territory. Every party in the Middle East other than Hizballah and its Syrian and Iranian sponsors believes that a resolution to the crisis that fails to achieve those conditions would be a catastrophe.