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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48018)	3/15/2005 12:46:54 PM
From: Ira Player	Respond to of 50167

Soros, while often showing himself to be a brilliant man, continues to build grand theories on poor assumptions. He believes that if a terrorist group bombs a train in your country, you should perform the action they are demanding? The people of Spain voted to allow terrorist methods to win. That leads to more terrorist activity. My 15 year old daughter (at the time she wrote it) had a better understanding of violence than Soros does. She wrote a paper for her history class in high school and noted that: 1. The "good nations" of the world must use violence to achieve peace. There will always be individuals in the world that do not believe the rules apply to them. They will use violence to achieve their objectives. The world must not let these people stand. 2. The objective of "good people" should be to minimize the total violence in the world. That does not mean not using violence themselves, but using 1 unit of violence to eliminate more than 1 unit of violence in the future. 3. She ended her paper with the statement that violence cannot be eliminated by "a bunch of people sitting around singing 'Kum By Ya', but can be minimized by a determined group of leaders using force where required to eliminate those that believe violence is a legitimate form of leverage against their competitors." The UN will not be an effective world body until they start acting together to stop the internal human rights violations within countries. Saddam Hussein should have been taken out, with UN blessing, when proof of the Kurdish gassings were first documented. How could the world see that and continue to let him 'rule' Iraq? Ira