Rules of Statesmanship and Warfare:

1. Know your friends from your enemies
2. Know which of your enemies are potential friends, and pursue all avenues for peace.
3. Know which of your enemies are intractable enemies, and wage war against them mercilessly.
4. It matters little what people say, it's what they do that counts.

sometimes attributed to Menachem Begin, but I can find no reputable source to prove that. Honestly, I've repeated it often enough that I sometimes think I wrote it.

You can make peace with three groups of people:

1. People you defeat.
2. People who have defeated you.
3. People who are potential friends.

Conflicts resolve when both parties expect the same outcome. This is true on both a personal and state level.

Third and Lastly:

Using an entertaining movie to illustrate a larger point sometimes falls flat, because after all, life is not a Hollywood movie.

That's the telegraph story.

For anyone attempting to find evidence to justify the war in Iraq, the discovery of a document that directly links Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks, with the Baghdad training camp of Abu Nidal, the infamous Palestinian terrorist, appears almost too good to be true.

Now, Abu Nidal was operating with Hussein's blessing, or else he wouldn't have operated for very long inside Iraq's borders. Hussein was a friend of Arafat and paid over $35 Million USD to the families of suicide bomber terrorists.

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