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On a recent trip to Lebanon, where he met with Lebanese President Aoun, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka declared the U.S. is 'ready to back Lebanon's army to disarm Hezbollah in the south of the country.
The development comes as an incessant bombing campaign by Israel in the south continues against Hezbollah positions, an Iranian proxy army.
The U.S. is ready to back Lebanon’s army to help implement a plan to disarm militant groups, which was announced in August but has yet to make tangible progress amid a spat with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah, reported Bloomberg.
The U.S. officials, in a meeting with Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, expressed readiness to help the war-battered country stabilize security in the south, where Israel has been regularly carrying out strikes on targets belonging to Hezbollah, according to the Lebanese state-run news agency NNA.
The support would aim to end armed activities and enable authorities to control the entirety of the Lebanese territories, the report said, without specifying the kind of backing the U.S. could offer. Aoun received a Treasury Department delegation headed by Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the U.S. president, at the presidential residence on the outskirts of Beirut, added Bloomberg.
We would like to ask -- what exactly did Gorka mean by his statement?
Is the U.S. going to use military force to disarm the Shia militant group? The Trump coalition did not vote for this option.
The importance of protecting the Christian population in Lebanon in any negotiation is missing from the Trump administration approach to the region.
I spoke with Steve Bannon on War Room earlier in the year on the issue.
