PrintJanuary 2, 2011
Why We Need a New Foreign Policy in Lebanon
For the sixth fiscal year in a row, the White House has requested that Congress appropriate millions of dollars in military financing to Lebanon. The appropriation would be used to help execute the same policy as the previous six years' worth of like appropriations: to help the Lebanese Armed Forces implement the U.N. Security Council resolutions that call for Hezb'allah's disarmament. Unfortunately, in the absence of considerably more robust parallel American policies designed to weaken Hezb'allah, there is no chance that merely throwing roughly the same amount of money at the Lebanese Armed Forces as last year (and the year before that, and the year before that, and so on) will meaningfully contribute to Hezb'allah's disarmament. After all, and as Einstein famously understood it, insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Accordingly, to make the point that we urgently need a new foreign policy in Lebanon, Congress...(Read Full Article)
