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Originally Posted by blankall
There's actually already multiple UN forces with that job. The problem is they just aren't very effective. For example, the force in Lebanon is still very active, but how do they actually do their job? Are they supposed to stop Hezbollah from acquiring and deploying rockets? That would require military force into refugee camps and Hezbollah strongholds, which isn't happening. Similarly, that same force isn't going to engage an Israeli warplane flying overhead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...rce_in_Lebanon
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So we are agreed it doesn't and won't work.
Listen the only way a peacekeeping mission works is if both hostiles want the violence to stop.
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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
I don't think its a good option either, but the way this is going, and the optics, will at some point draw in the international community. Especially with war crimes being commited.
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What you are actually talking about is peacemaking and I can tell you that is a cluster ####.
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