Eh, Garland, I hope you are not offended by the Machiavelli thing, I just said that because in many things you do sound like him. Specially when you said how good war was great to keep people away from internal issues. And take that question mark off your title :b
On the other hand, I don't know if IRA and ETA are the only terrorists you can negotiate with. Well, at least first you'd have to try with all those religious fanatic terrorists, I bet debating with them is not easy, but I can't think of another solution. It's not like ending terrorism is that easy!
