Dagan believes that the Syrians were emboldened by the Second Lebanon War, and argued for a concerted international effort to enforce UNSC resolutions in Lebanon as a means of removing Syria from Iranian influence.
His work focuses on terrorism and political violence, aid, and security policy, subjects he began to contemplate between 1998 and 2002, while serving as a surface-warfare officer in the Navy and helping to enforce U.N. resolutions in the Persian Gulf.
Given the west's colonial past, its history of adventurism and support for dictatorship in the region, its failure to enforce UN resolutions in Palestine and the legacy of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I think its motives in Libya will always be in doubt.
The Obama administration is pressing for a "self enforcing" resolution in the United Nations that would authorize military action if President Bashar al-Assad of Syria balked at turning over his nation's huge chemical stockpiles.
And that same U.N. resolution authorizes the use of necessary and appropriate force by U.N. member states to enforce such resolution in the event Iraq refuses to comply.
They have not sought to enforce the resolutions, 16 in number.
Enforcing resolutions that the U.N. was unwilling to enforce, WMDs, and the linkage claim provided the public rationale for war-planners in Washington.
The West must insist on enforcing the Security Council resolutions in support of Lebanese sovereignty and peaceful, representative government, or stop engaging in meaningless gestures.
The unwillingness of the UN Security Council to enforce its resolutions and its continuous yielding to the Turkish demands led in 2004 to the Annan Plan, heavily influenced by the British.
One half of the resolution delivers its power to the president, but it also instructs him to enforce U.N. resolutions.
After 16 resolutions and 11 years of sanctions, all admirably multilateralist, something more must be done to enforce the resolutions.
