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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118327)	11/2/2003 6:30:52 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What was the body count, Nadine? Did the thousands killed by others make the thousands killed in Sharon's war ok? Anyway, there certainly is a story when Arabs kill Arabs, the body count from Saddam's stupid war on Iran has been endlessly recycled, all the time ignoring which side the US was on in that one.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118327)	11/2/2003 6:47:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

I have to agree with Nadine here. Lebanon self-destructed, shattering into its many ethnic subunits. The sense of Lebanese nationalism was too weak to survive, when challenged by the PLO. Then various foreign nations temporarily sent their soldiers in, to clumsily meddle in the chaos. Israel, the U.S., France. They came, they died, they left. Typical war story. Then Assad added Lebanon to the Syrian Empire, and his son inherited the throne. Nothing was solved, so the story will probably repeat itself sometime, after everyone has forgotten their past mistakes.