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Is there an end to holy wars?

There are three lessons to be learned so far from the war in the Gulf, of which the chief is that an eventual settlement in the region will be reached with such difficulty that work on it had better begin now.

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Is there an end to holy wars?. Nature 349, 267–268 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/349267a0

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