Response: An international force could be sent to Lebanon for one of two purposes: to monitor a politically negotiated settlement or to disarm Hizbullah. The first would require Hizbullah’s consent; the second its defeat. Neither seems likely at this stage.

Response: There are “international forces”, and then there are international forces. There is already an international force on the Lebanese-Israel border that has been there for 28 years and accomplished nothing.

There is no possibility of an international force that could quell the current fighting. The obvious reason is physics: the force would be on the ground, while the missiles, artillery

Response: Collective action to such regional hot spots as Lebanon, Palestine, Bosnia etc. offer much more effective and promising solutions than unilateral action, either by the U.S. or Israel. The general failure of the "peacekeeping" concept, however, does not offer much confidence in this idea. The problem is how to effectively coalesce and coordinate multilateral action under creative leadership. This i

Response: Let us first be clear on the facts of the case before we talk about any new peacekeeping initiative. The situation in Lebanon has become very grim. Israel’ aggression in Lebanon has resulted in over 500 civilian dead. Many Lebanese towns have been destroyed by continuous Israeli bombardment and hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have been uprooted from their homes, forced to flee the bomb