Since the war ended, UNIFIL forces have done nothing to prevent Hizbullah's massive rearmament.
It was pure fantasy to believe that the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government would block Hezbollah's rearmament.
After the war, he oversaw Hizbullah's rearmament as well as the training of Hizbullah and Hamas forces in Iran.
South Korea's launch may, at least in small part, spur Japan's rearmament.
American acceptance of putative North Korean disarmament will likely spur leftist Japanese politicians to call for a cessation of the Abe's rearmament plan.
And the deal creates the expectation that the only practical bar to such rearmament - namely, the Israeli blockade of Gaza - will be eased.
However, this rearmament causes more concerns among Venezuela's neighbors than to the US, as Chavez is building alliances with subversives groups everywhere in the region.
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Or re-up a President who has repeatedly demonstrated the robust quality of his wartime leadership by successfully executing just such peace-through-strength policies and associated rearmament initiatives.
Arguably, the rearmament of the early 1950s used up skilled labour and machinery at a crucial time, when Britain was struggling to recover from the second world war.
The US-mediated ceasefire, which legitimized Hizbullah as a political force and paved the way for its rearmament and takeover of the Lebanese government, was a disaster for Israel.
In 1952, in a desperate bid to prevent West German rearmament and membership in a Western military alliance, Joseph Stalin offered to permit reunification of Germany with free elections.
In Lebanon, Livni was the architect of the cease-fire with Hizbullah that paved the way for Hizbullah's rearmament, reassertion of control over south Lebanon, and effective takeover of the Lebanese government.
It empowered the Hizbullah-dominated Lebanese government and army to prevent Hizbullah's rearmament and so paved the way not only for Hizbullah's rearmament, but for Hizbullah's takeover of the Lebanese government and military.
The reason, says Professor Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich of the Free University of Berlin, is that Germany returned to full employment more quickly, thanks partly to Hitler's own form of Keynesian stimulus: notably autobahn-building and rearmament.
If it then threatens to withdraw from its other arms-control treaties with America it could find itself even worse off, since richer America is far better able to look after itself in a rearmament free-for-all.
While many have pointed to the political consequences of the global recession, for example in feeding nationalism or extremism, and some have drawn parallels with the 1930s, nobody is yet advocating that there be rearmament.
Ms. TZIPI LIVNI (Israeli Foreign Minister): In order to dismantle Hezbollah, to take them out of the south part of Lebanon, and to prevent rearmament of Hezbollah in the future - this is a window of opportunity for the international community as for the Lebanese government.
Mr. ANNAN: And I think we need to be able to take care of the concerns of Israel, and I understand the issue of rearmament that we need to make sure that arms do not come in either through the airports and the borders or through the seaports.
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