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...Historians of the RAF say that by the time Klar and Mohnhaupt assumed their prominent roles in the group, the founders' ideals had become secondary to all-out war on the state. "Once [Klar] started shooting," recalled one acquaintance recently to the weekly Der Spiegel, "he couldn't stop until the magazine was empty." For a generation of Germans who survived World War II, the violence of those years awakened old traumas. "The RAF is history, thank God," says Butz Peters, a Berlin lawyer who has written several books on the group. "But the emotions associated with it - the powerlessness...
...Rival Palestinian leaders know that the Mecca meeting may be the last chance for a lasting truce. In Gaza, armed gunmen from both militias have already carved up the city with roadblocks and sniper positions in anticipation of an all-out war if the Saudi peace initiative fails...
...Apart, urges the White House to start "thinking about how to deal with the consequences of massive failure in Iraq," which would carry a heavy price for the United States and its allies. The report estimates that some 450,000 peacekeeping troops would have to be deployed to end an all-out civil war in Iraq and prevent the turmoil from spilling its borders...
...President Bush has said "failure is not an option in Iraq," but the Brookings researchers warn that he may already have failed there and not know it. They scoured the records of more than a dozen nations wracked by all-out civil war during the past 30 years - countries such as Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Somalia - and found that while historians could agree with hindsight on when those conflicts reached the point of no return, that point was never apparent to the leaders at the time. "This should sober us to the possibility that it may already be too late...
...Defense Department has no comment on the Brookings report, or on what kind of contingency planning it has under way in the event of catastrophic failure and an all-out civil war. Bush's new strategy - sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq - "is designed for victory," says a Pentagon official. "And that is what we're moving out on." But Pollock hopes the generals are thinking as much about Plan B, "because as much as we hope Plan A works, at this late date...