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To: tejek who wrote (128570)	11/15/2000 10:20:44 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1570547

What solved the East-West conflict is that one side eventually changed their intentions, and the conflict went away. There was nothing more to talk about. The "peace process" was no longer needed. Joe, I have no idea how you come up with this stuff...but you amaze me. The East West conflict ended because Russia ran out of rubles and could no longer afford to maintain its hold on the Eastern European bloc. Which caused them to change their previous intention to maintain the Soviet empire. You make Joe's point for him. I personally would not attack the idea of talks but talks will not themselves resolve the problem. The problem will not be resolved until one or both parties change their positions and this change has almost 0% chance of being created by the talks. The talks can settle the problem and decide on the details once there is a meeting of minds on big issues, but there is no such meeting of minds. This makes me think of some of the history of the US involvement in Vietnam. Some people thought that the situation could be resolved by negotiations. But there was no common ground to negotiate about. Some Americans thought that bombing campaigns would force the north to negotiate, to an extent they where right but they didn't force the north to concede and so the negotiations where fairly pointless. The issue was finally settled by the North Vietnamese army's massive invasion of the South (a conventional invasion BTW not gurilla warfare). Tim