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To: Dale Baker who wrote (1916)	7/20/2005 10:40:40 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540963

It will be interesting to watch how the whole thing plays out.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (1916)	7/20/2005 10:56:34 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540963

Smashing the bad guys is an emotionally satisfying idea You are responding as though smashing and negotiation were the only two choices. Most modern insurgencies either endure for decades and/or finally get defused through some nonmilitary move after a military stalemate is reached. I think the focus should be on defuse. Neither smashing (unless you can utterly annihilate the opposition) nor negotiation, (unless you roll over) defuses anything. Time and environmental changes can defuse as can incentives.