French Troops In Lebanon: A Very Bad Idea

From the geniuses of international diplomacy comes another really bad idea to end the fighting in Lebanon that will only make the crisis worse by spreading the conflict to Europe: the deployment of French peacekeeping troops to Lebanon.
The general plan for ending the fighting is for a deployment of a “robust international peacekeeping force” to Southern Lebanon, preliminary plans call for this force to be composed of 15,000 French troops. To me this doesn’t sound like a plan for peacekeeping, to me it sounds like a recipe for an all out war between Europe and the forces of Radical Islam. A war for which I don’t think France is prepared for or even capable of fighting.
The French aren’t even capable of policing the streets of their own cities, remember last year’s riots when Moslem youth burned up large areas of French cities. The French military couldn’t stop the rampaging mobs from burning cars and destroying property. If French troops can’t protect the property of French citizens in France how are they supposed to protect Israel from Hezbollah? Hezbollah has fought the Israeli Army one of the world’s best to a stand still now the French are supposed to contain this menace, give me a break!
The French troops probably couldn’t stabilize the situation in Lebanon and would probably destabilize France itself in the process. I imagine that the French troops would have to fight their way into Southern Lebanon and kill Moslem civilians, probably women and children in the process. The reaction to this in France would probably be another round of really destructive rioting from France’s Islamic minority, rioting that French leftists would probably join in.
The sight of French soldiers, Lebanon’s former colonial occupiers in Southern Lebanon would probably enflame Islamic public opinion and lead to further terrorist attacks on France. Within a few weeks of the French landing, the first bombs would be going off in the Paris Metro and French civilians would be dying. I imagine the reaction of the French people would be to demand the troops be called back further destabilizing Lebanon. Leaving Israel with little choice but to make South Lebanon into a wasteland, an act that would further inflame Moslem opinion against Israel.
The way would be cleared for the all out Middle Eastern War that Hezbollah seems to want. A war that would totally destabilize that region and have catastrophic effects upon the entire world.
So how should a “peacekeeping force” be constituted? My suggestion would be a combination of American, Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Indian and Israeli troops with some British and European units added to the mix. This force would have the authority and firepower to restore order and shore up the Lebanese government, it would also have a mandate to disarm and disband Hezbollah, a terrorist force that is a threat to world peace.
Chinese and Indian troops have to play a major role in this peacekeeping force because it is time for the world’s real major powers to step up to the plate and take responsibility. The United States and Europe have carried the burden of peacekeeping too long, a burden that they increasingly lack the power and money to uphold.
Will we see such a sensible course of action from the world’s major powers? Yes, but only after the French adventure in Lebanon has been a complete catastrophe and a great deal of French blood has been spilled because of the arrogant delusion that France is a major power. A delusion that must be sacrificed if we are to achieve a real peace in the Middle East.