Wariness, Not Hatred, Keeps Civil Wars Raging From: The Washington Post | Date: May 7, 2007| Author: Shankar Vedantam | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Here is a measure of the state of the war in Iraq: The number of Iraqis dying each month now rivals the total number of people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

When you look at the history of human warfare, civil wars always stand out. They invariably last longer than wars between nations, and they often claim more lives. When they end, they are more likely to result in one side having annihilated the other.

Pundits and political scientists have long believed that civil ...

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