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To: regli who wrote (48691)	3/26/2006 5:23:56 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 116555

Re War in Iraq. I think maybe the lessons from the Milosevic's trial need to be learned and understood. What was emerging from Milosevic's trial was this: Throughout the Balkan conflict, the West made either the wrong choices or, at best, the right choices too late. Chiefly we were misled by our bias for multicultural models of nationhood. Message 22269134 The various factions can be dragged to the negotiating table if there is land and oil plus international recognised sovereignty up for grabs.

To: regli who wrote (48691)	3/26/2006 7:46:59 PM
From: steve kammerer	Respond to of 116555

"Additionally, I don't believe that the "doing it softly" approach is something that fits the personal image of the U.S. soldiers as they are trained to view themselves as fighters as opposed to peacekeepers." We seem to have take our tactics directly from the Israelis tactics with the Palestinians and we know how well that has worked for past 60 years. We even bull doze down houses, put hoods over prisoners heads, fire rockets into civilian buildings to get one "terrorist". Indeed when the prison torture info came out, the initial reports mentioned a person called "Israeli Joe" envolved with interrogations of Iraqi's. Later all mention of him was dropped. Our soldiers have been getting anti-terrorist training from the Israelis. Not good.