But smoking the peace pipe looked to be a more constructive option than open warfare.

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So, this seems a little like smoking the peace pipe, or grow up time, depending on your perspective.

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Turkmenistan's interest in Afghanistan is predominantly commercial: peace would allow it to pipe its oil southwards to the Indian Ocean and the world market.

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Unable to convince their fellow Israelis that their two-state pipe dream will bring peace, the Israeli Left has joined forces with the international Left in its increasingly shrill campaigns to delegitimize the country's right to exist and undermine its ability to defend itself.

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The same media that brought us these catastrophes now derides Likud ministers and Knesset members who speak out against delusion-based policies, while suddenly embracing Netanyahu who - with Barak at his side - has belatedly embraced their pipe dreams of appeasement-based peace.

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