Trump thinks outside the box on Hezbollah – Lebanon wants Israel out first
Peloni: It is a disturbing observation to note that Trump having suggested the possibility of talking with Hezbollah. Doing so would only serve to raise their political standing while ignoring literally thousands of American deaths on their hands, as well as their role in the subsidizing and coordinating with the ongoing drug trade which Trump has been facing down in America. While it is stated that ‘conventional’ approaches have thus far failed, it should be noted that the only approaches to deal with Hezbollah have been thru negotiations based on promises of disarmament used to force Israel back across an undefensible border which ultimately led to the continued slaughter of Israelis in the North. What would be an unconventional step would be to support an Israeli buffer zone til such time as already agreed upon stipulations made by Lebanon, including by Pres. Aoun himself, of disarming Hezbollah was enacted. Of course, Aoun wants Israel out of Lebanon first, but that is the very mechanism on which the past ‘conventional’ approaches were based and failed. Time for a new approach, and talking with terrorists won’t solve the crisis. It will only serve to distract from the fact that the old approaches of forcing Israeli concessions is also the basis of the new approach. Thus far Aoun has disarmed not a single Hezbollah soldier and Israel is being forced into a ‘pilot’ test program. Forcing Lebanon to act would be a new approach, but it seems thus far that is not the path being pursued, which is why it will almost certainly fail.
President Trump meets with Lebanese Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office. Screengrab via Youtube.U.S. President Donald J. Trump has never been accused of thinking inside the box. If anything, the opposite is true.
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