[Jameison]

"Didn't the Frogs pull out of NATO sometime last century?"

The puffed up, inferiority complex ridden Charles de Gaulle pulled the French out of the military wing of Nato, and kicked Nato headquarters out of France.
That's how it ended up in Brussels.

[AFreeBird]

So then Chirac doesn't have much say in the matter.

[Candor7]

DeGaul also wanted to be the first to enter Paris after our armies did all the heavy liftin'. Eisenhower humored him, used him to pacify Paris and high diddle diddled right up the middle of Paris and chased the retreating Germans all the way to the border. I hope Condi understands that she can use exactly the same approach with the modern day Frogs.

A token UN force surrounded by NATO power, thats all the UN can offer anyway.

Notice how the UN cut and run when the Iraq UN HQ was blasted to smitherines and their Envoy killed a couple of years ago? And we are STILL there while the UN and their wimpy supporters in this country cry sour grapes and bile over each success in Iraq? What good in this situation could the UN possibly be. Their inaction created the present problem. I hope Bolton waves that fact in the UN faces, and then tattoos it on each UN A$$ that he can get his hands on!

All Condi has to do is give UNFOR a few latrines in South Lebanon to look after to keep them quiet. And put Nato in charge of policing the no fire zone with a deadly air cap from a constructed strip in the zone, with orders to seek and destroy all Hezbollah Activity. Get the UN to PAY for it ALL!!!!