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To: Lane3 who wrote (38524)	4/8/2004 2:42:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793917

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. I think you're too generous. While you could say that it's too much to interpret day-to-day events correctly in terms of the wider war, by denying the very existence of any wider conflict, you will ensure that nothing is ever interpreted, whether correctly or not. You equally prevent day-to-day interpretation and - more importantly - historical analysis to put the conflict into perspective. PS: If there is a war framework, correspondents will try to interpret day to day events and generally get them wrong. Every report from WWII intinctively tried to figure out what the latest events meant for the war. Correspondents and readers both think in terms of a war. But if the reporting is cycle-of-violence, the events are presented as essentially meaningless.