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To: John Lacelle who wrote (12928)	6/26/1999 6:07:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

John, I think you're making a meal out of this nuke mess... After all, once the Soviet Union got her own, there was peace for the next 40 years!! The name of the nuclear game is ''Don't push it!''. Besides, as many other ''mild'' regional conflicts in the world, I think that the Pakistani/Indian dispute over Kashmir serves mainly as a domestic spur for both India and Pakistan. By galvanizing the frustrations of their impoverished populaces against some external threat, it allows both regimes to remain unchallenged. Such a deluding tactic was used in the 1980s by Iranian and Iraqi leaders, as in the Falklands skirmish with the UK by a desperate Argentine junta (triple-digit inflation). As a matter of fact, I'm afraid that, somehow, it's also an unconfessed behavior by the Israeli establishment. Think about it: the Israeli elite (both political and economical) rests substantially on the military --just think of newly-elected PM Ehud Barak-- while most of the Israeli corporate apparatus relies on military R&D. Finally, from an ideological standpoint, the Israeli fabric's cohesion partly lies in a common mobilization against an alien menace. Hence, how would such a psyched-up society suddenly cope with a peaceful agenda? Sadly, we might claim that a hostile climate in the Middle East suitably fits in with Israel's sociopolitical interests, at least in the short term. Gustave.