Re: OT: Arming the Arabs

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:09:44 -0700, "Howard Beale" <a1695@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

As for peace: Someone tell me when there has been peace. Ever.

Peace is common as dirt. Most of history is peace, even in the supposedly
violent and warlike periods.

There's just never been universal peace.

Peace doesn't make interesting history so there is less written about it.
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