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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15525)5/9/2002 2:50:45 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 27666
 
I don't know who Clausewitz is and he may have said something to the effect of what you say. But in this case Arafat is very visible in the world community. He has met with world leaders including Shimon Peres and has been the rceipient of the Nobel Peace prize. Hence dealing with him is different from dealing with cavemen. With cavemen you just bomb and blast your way through and do not have to care for civilians since they do not have popular support amongst the civilians and do not live in their midst.

Arafat's case is the opposite side of the coin. As I said that if he is inciting/acquiescing to terrorism, then he is answerable to the world and will be pressured by the world community to cease and desist from such acts. But surely the world i salso not going to tolerate Ariel trying to settle a personal situation he has with Arafat. If that is the case then the world will look to two entirely diferrent leaders from both the Palestenian and Israeli side



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15525)5/9/2002 8:04:01 PM
From: epsteinbd  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 27666
 
Nadine, if my memory serves me well, I think von Clausevitz said " War is the continuation of diplomacy by other means."
And Peres paraphrased him well a year or so ago, when inaugurating a thirty million dollars desalinisation plant in the Turkish part of Cyprus by opening his speech with a quarter smile and :
Desalinisation, the continuation of peace by other means."
It was cute.