The director of the Middle East program there, Jon Alterman, is far more skeptical about an international stabilizationforce as long as Hezbollah remains an armed militia.
Michael Eisenstat, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says a stabilizationforce will have to look much different from the current U.N. force, which has been in southern Lebanon for the past 28 years.
If governments and international organizations such as the G-20 attempt to force the stabilization of these two currencies through edict, it will fail.