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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1898)	7/20/2005 10:04:18 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) of 540952

and political negotiations that take away the terrorist grievance or give the terrorists a legitimate political channel to vent their aggression I think that it's at least theoretically possible to defeat this terrorism without negotiating grievances and I'd prefer an approach that concedes nothing. I appreciate the objection to legitimizing grievances. I just think that it's inapt to deny them. You can recognize and understand the grievances without legitimizing, negotiating, or appeasing them. I am not prepared to do any of those. But it's dumb to confine one's own understanding, seems to me. It's unfortunate that we get into zero-sum arguments that say we must do ONLY one of those, and doing one means ignoring the other. I disagree with that. I think that the minute you show a willingness to negotiate you shut down other opportunities. You can work in the background on the grievances but only if you can do so without positively reinforcing terrorism.

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