[neverdem]

Too bad the left is unlikely to read it.

[Tolik]

Yes. We tell them of course during discussions, but how many people changed their mind? Some, but less than should have.

My own "small story" is this one.

Some bad guys from a bad neighborhood committed a more than usual daring crime in the nice part of the city. The city decided to finally clean up the bad neighborhood. The good guys are going now after that gang and all other gangs as well. It doesn't matter now that some of these gangs were at war with each other. They all got to go. The normal people in the bad neighborhood are cautious at first: they live there and there was a retribution in the past, when the police did not finish the job. So, it will take convincing them that we are serious this time.

Plus, we need to bring business there, rehabilitate real estate, organize neighborhood watch, etc, etc, etc. But the mane thing ALL thugs got to go. Period.

If its the way to reclaim a city, why Mideast should be much different?