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...even renewed bloodshed. Yet last week Henry Kissinger proclaimed: "Peace is at hand." At long last the U.S. could really count on the end of the conflict. That prospect makes it appropriate for the U.S. once again to assess the terrible cost of its longest, psychically most debilitating war???the cost not only in lost lives and disabled bodies but in the country's troubled conscience, its shaken self-image and its uncertainty over its world role. This is the moment also to look back on what the war meant, and to look ahead to try to perceive what peace...
...blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war???have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: "Up the I.R.A." and "Informers Beware" in the Catholic sections, "No Popery Here" in the Protestant areas. If nothing else, the signs are additional proof of the old saying that Ireland is a land with too much religion...
Still the gunmen persisted, and during World War II they almost perished for so doing. I.R.A. diehards waged terrorist bombing campaigns against Britain during the war???sometimes with Nazi help. This so threatened Irish neutrality that De Valera turned on the I.R.A. mercilessly. He had three members shot; two more were hanged, while others languished for years in the dreaded Curragh internment camp. Proudly, Ireland's Minister of Justice announced in 1947 that the I.R.A. was dead...
...message was clear?peace, not war???but whether the subcontinent's bitter antagonists would heed it was very much in question...
...stand. In fact, in the face of talk about protracted guerrilla fighting, mounting dangers of war with India, and an already enormous cost in human suffering, the general has only stiffened. Should India step up its aid to the guerrillas, he warned last week, "I shall declare a general war???and let the world take note of it." Should the countries that have been funneling $450 million a year in economic aid into Pakistan put on too much pressure, he also warned, he will do without...