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To: FaultLine who wrote (93797)	4/16/2003 2:33:04 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

I find Friedman's disparaging use of "constructive engagement" somewhat ironic. As near as I can remember, that term came into common use as the chosen official terminology for US Reagan-era policy toward South Africa under apartheid. Which consisted mostly of doing nothing, claiming vociferously all the while that "sanctions can't work". But they did. I happen to be reading a South African doctor's memoir that somewhat covers that era, The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine , by Jonathan Kaplan, described in detail in endeavor.med.nyu.edu . To get modestly topical, there is a great deal that could be described as terrorism in that book, much of it perpetrated by South Africa or South African / US joint ventures like SWAPO and RENAMO. Somehow, I don't think W's "war on terrorism" will apply to stuff like that any more than Reagan's efforts against "terrorism" did.