With the use of privatized security services, a robust military capability can still be maintained by the U.N. peacekeeping force without the attendant political backlash caused by casualties to U.S. forces.
Abandoning such policies -- whether in deference to the military-industrial complex or to its erstwhile advocates in the parliament -- cannot be allowed to proceed without an attendant reduction in U.S. financial, technological and other forms of support.
But it can be performed effectively without the permanent stationing of U.S. troops on the Heights, with all the attendant costs and risks of such a deployment.