French president Jacques Chirac has announced that France will commit 2,000 troops to the UNIFIL peacekeepers. He also wants to retain French command of the force.
PARIS – President Jacques Chirac announced Thursday night that France will send a total of 2,000 troops for the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. In a nationally televised address, Chirac said France will increase its deployment to 2,000 from an already announced 400 troops, and he hopes to retain command of the force.
The derision from just about everyone must have made an impression.
Isn’t it wonderful what world wide mockage can do?
>>The derision from just about everyone must have made an impression.
In fact, rules are now clean enough to say precisely which troops they will send.
Just thinking that sending 200 mens of combat engineering was, with no doubt, a mediatic bashing.
there will be 2000 troops under UNIFIL + 1700 troops out of UN command (Baliste operation).
About 3700 troops engaged, that’s a pretty good new for the region, isn’t it ?
It might be if it was a NATO command. The UN will make it unworkable, I’m afraid. They drafted 21 pages of rules of engagement.
A tad clumsy, isn’t it?
According to former Ambassador to France, Joe Wilson, husband of Vogue fashion model and CIA spy [redacted], the delay was caused by the need to sew and additional 1600 white flags.