We could see the smoke from the bombs on the satellite map Web site, Google Earth. Refugees were fleeing along the road from Beirut to Damascus. One of those refugees was our dear friend and colleague Elise Salem, who was visiting her native land of Lebanon when war broke out in July.
The recent conflict in Lebanon claimed more than 1,000 lives, caused billions of dollars in damages and threatened to violently destabilize the entire region. And then came U.N. Resolution 1701...
The following dialog takes place between a claimed supporter of the UN vision who believes the UN has failed and needs to be scrapped, and the executive director of the SWCT chapter. "...the United Nations appears to have become a failed organization, as exemplified by its failure to act in time to save at least many hundreds of thousands of lives in the genocides of Rwanda and Darfur, and by its most recent failures in achieving reasonable reform in regard to administrative and human rights structures..."
