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To: Ilaine who wrote (24149)	7/15/2006 12:52:41 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541008

It's a problem that can only be managed. Managing the problem really means postponing the situation and realistically make the situation worse. The problem has to be solved. But who's arming Hamas and Hezbollah? They need to stop, and if they won't stop voluntarily, they need to be made to stop. That is a terrible idea. We can't manage the problem on a local level. Widening the conflict is a terrible idea. Face up to it. There is no military solution. Get rid of the notion that there is a military solution. That is a good place to start.

To: Ilaine who wrote (24149)	7/16/2006 9:09:40 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541008

But who's arming Hamas and Hezbollah? They need to stop.... Stretch that logic to Israel. I would say that all nations including the US should make the ME a weapons free zone. Israel would not have flattened villages and used excessive force for one or two soldiers if they did not have such a dangerous cache of arms and weapons supplied and replenishes by the US. A similar logic can also be applied to N. Korea and Iran. How can the US expect these nations not to acquire nuclear weapons when the US itself is heavily armed with nuclear weapons. And to make matters worse, the US unilaterally decided to walk into Iraq by overriding the objections of other world nations. And they continue to be labelled as "the axis of evil" by the US! Under these circumstances how can we expect other nations to sit back and be subservient to the US?