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Originally posted by Lanesra:
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Originally posted by Azred:
I have never seen or heard of anyone successfully negotiating with a terrorist to any positive outcome.
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So tell me, when was the last IRA bomb in the UK ? when was the last time a soldier was shot in Northern Ireland ?, they haven't stopped because we battered the IRA into submission, they've stopped because we sat down and talked, so there's your positive outcome, and if you've never seen or heard about that you don't watch the news, or don't know there's a big old world out there.[/QUOTE]
You know what? Lanesra is right...and when you're right, you're right. Alas for my beautiful little hypothesis, shot down in the prime of its life by an ugly fact.
I think what helped in that situation was the fact that reasonable and level heads finally prevailed long enough to sit down together. I strongly doubt that will ever happen with terrorists from the Middle East...but I am not a fortune teller. We'll all just have to wait and see.