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To: FaultLine who wrote (23499)	4/4/2002 5:40:55 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

<<That was my grandson's first post to FADG>> Congrats...we need some younger posters out here...=) regards, -Scott

To: FaultLine who wrote (23499)	4/4/2002 7:08:58 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

. /,lmjmmio";, ]-, bcv c (That was my grandson's first post to FADG Welcome Jared!) One of our more sensible posts over the past several weeks. Welcome to you, too, Jared. As for the problem, I really have no solution either. I don't think anyone should stop posting and I don't feel anyone's posting regularly goes beyond any acceptable bounds of discourse. Of course, there are times we all get heated but they come and go. One of the ways to counter the too-many-posts of one viewpoint is to counter with a great many from other points of view. I not only don't think that helps; I, for one, have a great many other things to do with my life these days. I don't wish to spend most of my time copying and pasting from The New York Times. I've suggested some other topics but the suggestion never has much legs. And I can understand that with all eyes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that's what every one wants to talk about. So I have no solution. Oh, I should add, we've lost a poster or two because of it. But that seems to me to be sort of normal behavior for threads on SI. One could also argue that, given the circumstances, we are doing a fairly decent job. We could be yelling and screaming at one another in all caps fashion. That's what some portions of the world are doing today.

To: FaultLine who wrote (23499)	4/4/2002 8:31:53 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Faultline... as I'm sure you realize, FA discussions generally follow the "what's hot" category, and right now that's Israel and the Palestinians.. If you recall a few months ago, it was the US effort in Afghanistan... Later this summer it will probably be Iraq and maybe even Iran... And maybe we should take a lesson from all of this as being a perfect reflection of how FA related matters actually are dealt with at the international level.... That what we generally know as Foriegn Affairs, is really about dealing with whatever is the latest crisis, and hoping that something positive can be accomplished during the short periods of relative calm. And it explains why, when such a small, non-strategic part of the world receives around the clock attention, much of the non-developed world receives little but lip service. Hawk