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...road map might thus produce a tactical cease-fire. But that would just provide an interval of safety for Palestinian terrorists to rearm, regroup and prepare to fight later on. Publishing the road map with Arafat still clinging to power and with Abu Mazen unproved is a bad omen. By rewarding the Palestinians before Arafat is gone and by demanding Israeli concessions while the violence continues, it belies the very premise of the June 24 policy, the only policy since Oslo that has produced real progress...
...that pursuing a deal is better than becoming a target like al-Qaeda. Some in Colombo speculate that Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran may be losing the fighting spirit, or that he's worried about the future of his teenage son. In the past, the LTTE has used truces to rearm and train, which is disturbing. And yet none of the previous cease-fires has lasted more than a few weeks...
Some American pilots--and many are military vets--don't want to be holding just the yoke should that door open. Last week pilot chat sites were burning with a desire to rearm, a privilege revoked in 1987 when flight crews became subject to the same screening procedures as passengers, meaning they could no longer carry firearms. "It's probably the worst thing that ever happened," says Rick Givens, a retired USAir pilot and Air Force veteran of the Vietnam...
...anti-U.S. anger among their own people over both the plight of the Iraqi people under sanctions and of the Palestinians during the current intifada makes them eager to see sanctions lifted. Even then, they retain a residual interest in curbing Saddam's ability to rearm himself...
...Reagan said no. When he became President, he did what he had promised for a decade to do: he said we were going to rearm, and we built up the U.S. military. He boosted defense spending to make it clear to the Soviets and the world--and to America--that the U.S. did not intend to lose...