THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Geoffrey Aronson) - How Lebanon Continues to Confound the U.S.
The new U.S.-brokered memorandum of understanding between Israel and Lebanon has the weaknesses of its predecessors. The post How Lebanon Continues to Confound the U.S. appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs How Lebanon Continues to Confound the U.S. The new U.S.-brokered memorandum of understanding between Israel and Lebanon has the weaknesses of its predecessors. The recent memorandum of understanding between Israel and Lebanon is not the first time the U.S. has placed itself at the center of Lebanese affairs. Serial interventions, both military and diplomatic, have been undertaken by Democrats and Republicans alike in Washington over close to a century. These efforts attest to Lebanon’s outsized ability to engage Washington at the highest level, and highlight the at best limited, short-term effectiveness of that…Open