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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (153386)	12/5/2004 5:27:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, diplomacy takes time. But its cheaper than unjustified war, any day. Diplomacy took a great deal of time in the thirties. At every stage people said, 'it's cheaper than war'. That was false. The diplomacy of the thirties had a extraordinarily high cost. War in 1934 wouldn't have cost 1% of what war in 1939 turned out to cost, which was damn near the destruction of Europe. The cost of diplomacy depends on what the diplomacy achieves at the end of the day. The current EU/IAEA diplomacy is going to achieve a nuclear armed Iran, and that is likely to be quite expensive.