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To: Alighieri who wrote (176395)	10/10/2003 12:19:52 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1571602

What else can one say about a sick conservative mind (although admittedly not all conservative minds are sick) that is not embodied in the sentence above? Sick, perhaps, but truthful. The object is to get a settlement both parties can live with, not one that everyone is "happy" with (which would be an unrealistic and unattainable objective). You have to put your unbridled idealism aside and try to think about realistic solutions; which is what Bush has done that Clinton didn't and the reason that ultimately, Bush's game plan has a higher likelihood of success.

To: Alighieri who wrote (176395)	10/14/2003 6:37:47 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571602

What's sick about that idea? If there is no negotiation either the conflict goes on with the weaker side suffering more, or the conflict ends on the terms of the stronger side. If there is a negotiation more often then not the stronger side will get things a bit closer to what it wants then to what the weaker side wants. Certainly the stronger side will have to give up something (unless it is so much stronger that it could impose the terms at gunpoint if the weaker side doesn't give it what it wants through negotiation) but normally the stronger side will not meet the weaker side half way. Tim