Direct evidence of Iranian involvement???

Originally Posted by pgardn

I will again use Northern Ireland as an example. Here is another case of a long history of war. Now the skirmishes are few and far between. Why? I believe its because people are at work feeding their families and taking vacations. They now have a life to live.
Commerce did this. Some big computer companies came in and put people to work. More commerce followed.

Your analysis of the Northern Ireland situation is correct ... but I'd suggest different terminology.

"Commerce" is a nice word .. but "free market capitalism" is more explanatory and accurate. Ireland (North & South) ... like all socialist countries ... was an economic basket case ... until they shed the socialism and adopted low-tax, free-trade, free-market policies ... and looky-here ... all the problems were solved.

The same thing would happen for the Palestinians and other Arab basket cases ... if they would emulate the capitalist systems of the United States and Israel ... instead of resenting them.