the Daily Whale - 21 May 1991

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It is a commonplace that all sides must choose peace to have peace, but only one need choose war to have war.

Smart peace groups realize this, though they sometimes wish it away. What they overlook is that domestic politics works the same way. A determined peace group, if it fails in its aims, must tend toward militancy.

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