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To: stockman_scott who wrote (23186)	4/2/2002 6:04:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

More silly reporting of the "violence never works" variety. History shows that sometimes, violence does work. It varies. There have been inconclusive wars and pyrrhic victories; there have also been decisive victories that worked quite well for the victors. The Turks seem to have won their war against the PKK; they used violence I believe. Observers of the PA think that this intifada has been a military operation with no more than 2000 active militants. Put bluntly, if most of those 2000 are dead or out of the country, and the rest in hiding, if they are deprived of their bases in Area A, they will have less ability to send out the suicide bombers or tell everybody what heroic martyrs they are. Once the regime is gone, the US can work with the parties to establish tolerable conditions on the ground with some "political horizon". But it should be clear to the meanest intelligence (unfortunately, it's not) that this regime has chosen the side of terror and suicide-bombing, and neither Israel nor we can afford to reward that choice, whatever the Palestinians' issues.