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To: LindyBill who wrote (43013)	9/10/2002 9:58:31 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Those that tend to think as I do, believe that force is the only thing that the Islamists respect, and we will have to use it to solve our problems. Those who disagree think that force will backfire on us and we must work to negotiate our way out of this. That leaves out those of us who have no fundamental objection to the use of force, provided that it is used intelligently and aimed with precision at the forces that threaten us. I had no objection to the use of force in Afghanistan, and I can think of a few other places in which it would do a great deal of good if used with direction and discretion. The indiscriminate use of force, IMO, will create more threats than it will resolve. I think we will only succeed at this "War" we are in by forcing major changes in the ME. A scary opinion, because our ability to force major changes in the ME is very doubtful. We can defeat the armies, but that's only a first step to major change. Democracy cannot be imposed from outside.

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