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From: janc@uofm-cv.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: IS THIS WHAT WE"VE BEEN WAITING FOR - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 10-Sep-83 10:53:02 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 10 10:53:02 1983
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	As a conscientious right-winger, I SUGGEST WE STOP SELLING GRAIN TO
	THE USSR.  Any takers?  Didn't think so...

					-be

For what possible reason would you want to stop selling grain to the USSR?
Who does that help?  What good does it do?  What are you trying to acheive?

Not only do I advocate selling grain to the Soviets, I advocate selling them
anything they want to buy.  Sell them grain.  Sell them computers.  Sell them
heat-seaking missiles.  What do we lose by it?  Somebody sold them the blue-
prints ages ago.  So what if they use our own weapons against us in the Big One?
If it comes to that, we've lost the game anyway.

Responding to hostility with hostility just breeds more hostility.  Most of
the problems we have with the Soviets arise from mutual distrust.  All these
endless posturings and gibbering threats are counterproductive, and it is not
as impossible to stop as it looks.  All we need is enough balls to break with
the paranoid tradition that has developed here.

					Jan Wolter -- University of Michigan