"Dan White" wrote in news:GOAQd.4304$1J1.3682
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"Nate Perkins" wrote in message
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Rob Mitchell wrote in
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I'm sure I'll get hammered for this, too naive etc, but diplomacy does
work sometimes. The alternative is more violence, killing and hatred.

I think it works frequently. The US has a lot of tools to influence
oppressive regimes -- economic, diplomatic, political, military. Too
often lately, we rely on the military option alone.

Name one modern instance where war was used before diplomacy was tried.

Real diplomacy or window-dressing diplomacy?