51.   Odom said the United States must not figure out how to start a war with them, but how to finish it off.

52.   Oil refineries kept inventories of crude low recently anticipating that the United Nation would allow Iraq, which started that war, to export some oil again.

53.   On the first day, Warren Christoher did not shake the hand of Milosevic, who is widely blamed for starting the war.

54.   Or a desperate regime might start a war against South Korea to divert public attention from internal problems.

55.   One might hope the new readiness to start unrestrained wars would at least be geographically confined.

56.   Pakistan too has of late seemed bent on starting a war with India over Kashmir by smuggling in weapons and making inflammatory declarations.

57.   Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has also erred by increasing military pressure to a level where it may be difficult for India to back out of starting a war.

58.   So what if Steinbrenner really did start the dirty little war that lasted a few weeks this summer?

59.   Sometimes they start wars.

60.   Starting wars with neighbors is by far the least likely form of conflict in the modern era.