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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (38509)	4/8/2004 2:14:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Thanks, you understood my question just fine. If your framework is cycle of violence, you can never notice who is gaining ground. If your framework is war, then you can notice shifts in the conflict. My only reservation is that, in a war, the momentum shifts look a lot like a cycle of violence and actual progress in the conflict can be seen only at a macro level if at all. You can't look at a war from day to day and tell who is winning on any particular day. Sometimes you can't tell until the two minute warning, sometimes not even then. Based on that, I'd be hard pressed to come down too hard on folks for seeing a cycle of violence paradigm and missing the war one. That's a lot of nuance to expect from folks, methinks.