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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (21914)	3/22/2002 12:52:46 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But if American boys are going to be sent to fight and die, Israel had better be as just in the cause they are dragging us into, as they can possibly be. I don't think those who weren't persuaded by Arafat's refusal of Barak's offers are persuadable under any circumstances. I dare say the diplomatic song and dance may be spun out a while longer. But most Americans imho have too much sense to want Israel to yield to terrorism in a vain effort to show the justice of their cause. The chattering classes may be another matter, however. The New York Times op-ed page just printed another nauseating example of moral equivalence between terrorism and counter-terrorism "Each side has escalated the violence using the means available to it" says Anthony Cordesman. No, you dope, each side has chosen which tactics to use, Arafat in prosecuting his war, Sharon in defending Israel from Arafat's war. There are lots of means available to Israel that they have not used because they don't want to cause mass casualties. In fact, they spent a great deal of time in this war bombing empty buildings whose occupants had been warned to get out. The Israelis only began to attack Area A after they had been goaded by over a year of escalating terrorist attacks. The Palestinians, on their side, could have chosen to use diplomatic options, or to concentrate on attacking Israeli soldiers, but they preferred bombing random civilians in Israel. I wonder how cool Mr. Cordesman will be when suicide bombing moves to New York and Washington. You think Al Quaeda isn't watching the Mideast results?