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To: michael97123 who wrote (155930)	1/11/2005 11:09:36 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Give people a big enough stake in peace and they will achieve it. Isrealis for example want peace and so do Palesinians. But there are terrorists and settlers who, although relatively smaller in number, can set up a cycle of killing and repsonse and killing and response to which there is no end -- and no peace. The repsonse to terror creates the necessary second step in perpetuating the terrorism. Going into Suni controlled areas to kill people accomplishes nothing -- on this score we see things the same I think. The question is, what are we really doing there in the first place? By the time this is over we will have spent hundreds of billions of dollars -- for what? 99% of that will be for killing or to prevent ourselves from being killed. What a remarkable waste of our resources. Now, as to elections, that is part of the goal and it creates a different social dynamic. But quick and dirty elections do not create democracies -- what are we doing to do the "nation building" we took on as our obligations as an army of occupation? We should ask ourselves why we are so generous with bombs and so loathesome of the tasks of nation building that create the foundations for democracy -- conducting a "vote" is not going to cut it.