All the more reason for the two leaders to try to ensure the glimmer of hope for peace does not fade, as it has done before.

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Diplomats meet in Geneva next week to try to salvage plans for a June peace conference.

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Not defending absurd federal spending for a second, federal spending is something that will be way too high for as long we try to keep global peace.

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It would be foolhardy to ignore such problems simply because Israel has decided, for its own reasons, to try to make peace with Syria.

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But I will try because peace in the Middle East is a defeat for terrorism.

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Rather than dispatch troops to a war-zone, and have little but casualties to show for it afterwards, the Clinton administration decided instead to try to make peace in Bosnia and then to send in troops to enforce it.

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