Mr. STEINBERG: The ground operations are only to be used to try to capture those missile launchers, destroy the missile launchers and the storage sites, and not to change the political process in Lebanon.

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On chemical weapons, the key would be to isolate the storage sites and take over the stocks, or, in an emergency, destroy them in situ.

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