FRANCE RENEGS FOR GOOD REASON

IN A STUNNING REVERSAL OF THEIR COMMITMENT TO SEND 2000 TROOPS TO LEBANON TO LEAD THE UN PECEKEEPING FORCE. THE FRENCH HAVE DECIDED TO ONLY SEND 200 TROOPS. THESE TROOPS WON'T PARTICIPATE IN ANY HOSTILITIES IF NEEDED. THEIR COMMITMENT IS TO BUILD AND HELP WITH TRANSPORT FOR THE "UNIFIL" FORCE. THE REASON GIVEN WAS THAT THE UN RESOLUTION DOES NOT ALLOW TROOPS IN HARMS WAY IN LEBANON TO RETURN FIRE IF FIRED UPON WITHOUT FIRST GETTING PERMISSION FROM THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. ONLY A MESSED UP ORGANIZATION THAT IS GUTLESS WOULD SEND SOLDIERS INTO A WAR ZONE WITH SUCH LIMITED ABILITY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
THE FRENCH MAY ALSO HAVE IN THE BACK OF TEIR MINDS THE STREET RIOTS, CAUSED BY MUSLIM YOUTH, THAT WRACKED THEIR COUNTRY NOT TOO LONG AGO.
GERMANY ALSO BACKED AWAY FROM SENDING A LARGE FORCE OF TROOPS. MS. MERKEL HAS RULED OUT SENDING ANY GROUND TROOPS. THE BRITISH MEANWHILE ARE CONSIDERING THE SIZE OF FORCE THEY WILL COMMIT. MUCH OF THIS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE STATEMENT MADE BY FORMER GENERAL MACKENZIE OF CANADA. HE IS THE FORMER HEAD OF THE UN FORCE IN BOSNIA.
YESTERDAY HE SAID, "WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT COMES OUT OF THE UN IS THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR FOR A BEST CASE SCENARIO. WHAT WILL MOST PROBABLY HAPPEN IS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO, AND THE UN FORCE WILL BE ILL EQUIPPPED TO COPE WITH IT SINCE THE UN COMMANDER MUST GET APPROVAL FROM THE LEBANESE ARMY CHAIN OF COMMAND BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO USE DEADLY FORCE, EVEN IF ATTACKED!"
THIS IS A MAP FOR DISASTER AND POSSIBLE MASSACRE. THE FINE PRINT IN THE UN RESOLUTION DOES NOT GIVE THE UN COMMANDER THE AUTHORITY TO USE DEALDY FORCE IF REQUIRED. ONLY FOOL HARDY AND SIMPLE MINDED PEOPLE (LIKE THE UN) WOULD SEND TROOPS INTO BATTLE WITHOUT GIVING THEM THE AUTHORITY TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.