WHY IT WOULD BE A DISASTROUS MISTAKE to send U.S. troops to the West Bank as peacekeepers. I agree. I’m all for peacemaking, which one accomplishes by blowing the crap out of people causing trouble. (As one Keith Laumer character remarks, “Nothing so peaceful as a dead troublemaker.”) But peacekeeping is pretty much a game for suckers in any situation where one of the parties feels it has something to gain from war.