Word: disarmement
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...take a greater role there. According to Lebanese officials, Rice has suggested rules of engagement allowing its soldiers, who may number up to 20,000, to shoot back but not to go door to door looking for Hizballah. That reflects a realistic appreciation that foreign soldiers could not possibly disarm the group throughout the country and could become enmeshed in a nasty war if they tried. British Prime Minister Tony Blair signaled that Hizballah would hardly be a straightforward enemy when he said the deployment "can only work if Hizballah is prepared to allow it to work." Even...
...core of its politics, key not only to its self-definition but also to the arms, money and backing it gets from Syria and Iran and the support it gets inside Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world. "There's not enough money in the world for them to disarm, because it means giving up their major philosophy," says Miller. As part of efforts to normalize Lebanon earlier this year, Hizballah was engaging in a national dialogue with other parties in which it listened sympathetically to entreaties to forget fighting and concentrate exclusively on politics for the good...
...Lebanese government's package deal could also be a ruse. After Hizballah ministers had signed up to it, Nasrallah appeared on TV, threatening more rockets on Israel. "I'm sure Hizballah is saying yes to buy time," says a senior Lebanese source. "They don't intend to disarm. They are smart...
...there is to be an international force - and there should be - its mission should be to disarm Hizballah. Such a force needs to be knowledgeable, strong and no-nonsense. It has to go in with the expectation that Hizballah will lay down its arms so they can be destroyed. If Hizballah won't do that, the international force has got to have the active rules of engagement and military capability to destroy those weapons...
...TIME: Why didn't the government disarm Hizballah as mandated by U.N. Resolution...