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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (111695)	8/16/2003 3:53:12 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Maurice Winn; Re: "But neither is it in the interests of the locals to have ongoing mayhem. So the ethical dimension becomes the key." I get the impression that a difference between us is that I see people as being more naturally inclined to fight than you do. Not everybody, of course, but there are a lot of guys who just love to fight, and throwing them a target that they can dehumanize (a Godless invader, come to steal their oil), just makes it that much easier to justify. War is fun, at least for a lot of people. (By "a lot" I mean maybe 5% of the human population, which would be about 1 million in Iraq alone.) -- Carl