Ebbie: I respectfully disagree. If you were right, there would have been no end to WWII, right? Seems to me that an armed conflict resulted in the end of the Civil War in our own country. It ended the conflict between Texas and Mexico in 1836. WWI was settled by armed conflict. An instance where armed conflict took place, but there was no permanent settlement was Korea, and it is still festering today. Had McArthur been given free hand, perhaps there would be peace in Korea today. Viet Nam is a different story. Evidently it was never intended that we win that one. Had Johnson listened to Goldwater, there might have been an entirely different ending to that conflict.

DougR