Weekend Suicide Bombings

[jet_silver]

The only response that is left is take two aspirin and try to forget it. It's pretty clear no outside agency is going to be able to fix the problem.

I'm not interested in the 'rightness' of anybody's position. The status quo is either acceptable or not acceptable to the people involved, who need to decide whether they want to live in peace (in which case they need to abandon their feud) or whether they want to annihilate one another (in which case no external peace-keeping mission is going to do any more than slow down the inevitable).

Throwing assets of any kind at either side is a waste of time and money. Throwing talk is cheaper but it serves to aggrandize the matter, which is that two intransigent peoples don't, apparently, value getting along.
Historically speaking, if both sides in a war fight themselves into exhaustion, a third party will take advantage of the power vacuum to exert their own control, and that is what intransigent people seem to need in order to learn to behave themselves.