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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (71631)	2/5/2003 10:01:09 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Tell you what.. it's your turn to wage peace... Hawk, We haven't even BEGUN to learn how to wage an aggressive peace. (Probably the reason we haven't yet is that there is just not enough profit in it for the Carlyles of the world). Opposing the idea will be those people who, all their lives, have known war to be the only corrective measure and thus cannot see a situation without polarizing it, who will automatically cry that it can't be done, that we've always settled conflicts with violence, and by cracky, if it was good enough for my grandpappy, its good enough for me. But don't tell me we don't have enough behavioralists and psychologists and such, that given a few years and a few billion dollars, we couldn't come up with a truly effective psych-ops based on motivations and rewards. Plus there's that enormous foreign aid money pile, ready to be doled out or withheld accordingly. Of course there will always be those hardcore cases who want us dead just because we are breathing their air, but there will be far fewer of them than there will be of the kind that can have their behavior modified by intensive stick and carrot techniques. We need to think way outside the box here. I for one do not wish to pass on to my kids another never-ending war.