By Andrew L. Jaffee

Thank you Italy for pledging 3,000 troops to police Lebanon, and thank you Silvio Berlusconi for telling like it is regarding the proposed UN peacekeeping force:

What exactly they have to do must be clear: they must disarm Hezbollah. I don’t believe that without the disarming of the Hezbollah militias we can solve anything.

Hey, he’s not prime minister anymore, but Berlusconi still leads the Casa delle Libertà party.

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Related: Israel, Europe, Lebanon, Terrorist Groups, United Nations (UN)

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