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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (34962)	7/25/2002 1:44:44 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Jacob Snyder; Re: "Ask the Czecks how they moved the Germans out of the Sudetenland (part of Bohemia), if you want to know how it can be done without violence." You mean kill 5% of the German population in a 7-year long war and the survivors will be docile enough to do what you tell them to? Re: "re: Bin Laden, with nukes: when that happens, the U.S. will have a choice: disengage totally, or engage totally. Withdraw support from all our client states in the Middle East, or nuke everywhere he might be hiding." Killing them all and letting God sort them out will be out of the question as an option for the United States. Al Qaeda operates out of places like Berlin, LA and Paris. This gets back to the failure of the Israeli response to the suicide bombings. Israel's badly aimed retaliation punishes all Palestinians, instead of just the ones that are responsible. That technique cannot succeed until you kill or wound a substantial percentage of the population, and then make it obvious that you intend on continuing until absolute surrender (which Israel has shown absolutely no inclination to do). Pursuing such a policy against nations whose people are at worst ambivalent towards us will only turn more people against us. Germany couldn't conquer the world in 1938 and the US can't do it now. -- Carl

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (34962)	7/25/2002 10:07:35 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Re: Ask the Czecks how they moved the Germans out of the Sudetenland (part of Bohemia), if you want to know how it can be done without violence This was mainly an act of retaliation, not ethic separation: radio.cz The reason Europe (Balkans aside) has had ethnic peace for the last 50 years, is precisely because they moved many millions in the 1940s The Germans have been kicked out of Eastern Europe. Again, war and Nazi collaboration and not ethnic tension (before WWII) has been the reason. It was a violent process: 2 mio of about 12 mio people lost their life. to create ethnically pure nations There are ethnic minorities in several countries of Europe. Many of the problems have been solved by the implementation of federalistic structures. As for the Israeli settlements: this is clearly a violation of international law. This should never have been tolerated. Now it's a source of big problems and very difficult to unwind. Instead of federalistic structures, we see a thing very similar to apartheid. Boris Always enjoying your posts.