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July 28, 2006
How Much Tea Will $600 Million Buy?
Something really caught my eye in an article by former British Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith (via The Corner). Writing on the utter ineffectiveness of international diplomacy in bringing real peace to the Israel-Arab confilict, he makes this passing observation:
After Israel unilaterally withdrew from Lebanon in accordance with UN resolutions the world community promised to disband Hezbollah and protect the northern territories of Israel from shelling. It didn’t. The promise never evolved into action. $100m has been sunk into the UN’s interim force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in every year of the last six but Hezbollah has only grown stronger. The only newsworthy story generated by UNIFIL was a recent financial scam.
Emphasis mine. $100 million dollars every year for the last six years? For what? How many of you even knew there was a UN presence in southern Lebanon? I sure didn't.
I wonder where that money is now? I suppose there was a lot of tea to buy.
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