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To: Lane3 who wrote (25453)	7/29/2006 9:09:53 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541477

To stop a war without total victory by one side (which would take decades if ever to achieve), the first step is to separate the combatants and keep them separate and non-aggressive. It's hard to see how that happens without an intervening force that intimidates each side into submission. Is that smart? Depends if you think the international force would work better than the status quo, whether a ceasefire is "smart" or desirable and so on. It worked in Bosnia but the combatants there were lightly armed wimps in comparison with these players.