Condoleeza VS. Condoleeza

Since the Presidents comments to Tony Blair at the G8 Summit we have known that the U.S. has been staunchly opposed to a cease fire, calling it a “false promise”
and ‘not addressing the cause of the problem’. Today Condi is singing a very different tune, the headlines read “Rice Says Cease Fire is Urgent”
.

So why? Well if I could tell you what kinds of crazy deals are brokered behind closed doors and what words are spoken I’d be a very important person. What is being said is that the conditions of the cease fire would have to be “right”. Well for who, it’s not hard to tell. If you think Israel is going to bombard a whole country and not accomplish what they went there for in the first place, you’re living in a fantasy land, some utopist land that I’d love to visit. Send me a post card or something if your there.

Here’s what I imagine Israel’s cease fire conditions contain. (This is super risky because if none of this comes out to be true I’ll never hear the end of it. If it does end up to be true I’ll look like a political genius…but no one will care. Whatever I like to gamble.)

-The disarmament of Hezbollah.

-The stationing of Israeli troops in south Lebanon for an indefinite amount of time.

-The return of captured solders (of course).

And

-Something regarding Syria, that part is dicey and yet to be seen.

What can Lebanon hope to gain?

-Very little

-Not much

-Probably nothing

And

-Possibly erasing their multi-billion dollar debt. (Which would mean Lebanon would have to do most of the dirty work of disarming Hezbollah, which Prime Minister Seniora has refused to do on several occasions.

It remains to be seen if any good can come out of this situation, until then I’m on strike regarding this topic. (Unless something SUPER juicy happens in between, like Iran sending in 100,000 troops. That would be interesting, no?)

P.S. What do you think Condoleeza is talking about in this picture. It's one of those pics that are ripe for a punch line like, "Insert Joke Here"