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Thread #42181   Message #613846
Posted By: Little Hawk
20-Dec-01 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Is Arafat Irrelevant
Subject: RE: Is Arafat Irrelevant
That's a well thought out explanation, Bennet, and I think you may well be quite right in what you say. It is indeed the "refuse-niks" who are the problem, and they are the problem when it comes to bad relations between India and Pakistan as well. Gandhi had the courage to take them on, and he ended up being assassinated by a Hindu fanatic of the refuse-nik variety. It is always the merciless few who cause suffering for the great majority of ordinary people, who may not be without prejudice...or perfect in their intentions, but who mainly just want to live a quiet, peaceful and prosperous life...if the militant few would only let them.

- LH