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From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Grenada
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 18:00:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 18:00:09 1983
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I read recently (Monday?) a column by Jack Anderson saying that there
were some high-level talks going on secretly between the US and Grenada,
and that Bishop was easing his stand on the US with the understanding that
we would slowly extend diplomatic courtesies to Grenada.

Let's assume that this was the case.  Bishop is murdered by Soviet proxies.
This sends a clear message to Third World leaders:  Join with the US and
you DIE.  You, man, not your soldiers.  YOU!

Well, if having friends (and keeping them and getting them) means anything
to this bastoin of truth and justice and (horrors) trustworthiness, then
there is only one thing that we CAN do.  We must say to the proxies:  You
kill my friend and YOU die.  Not JUST your troops.  Not JUST your prestige,
YOU!

And this is what the Grenada ``invasion'' is doing.

Friendly goevernments do not put our citizens under a 22-hour a day
curfew with instructions given to MPs to shoot on sight to kill.

And we have captured, so they say, Hudson Austin, who led the coup.  What
will we do with him?  Will we shoot him immediately (which he deserves),
trade him to the Russians for one of our nationals (not good for his health
under any circumstances) or hand him over to the CIA and let them play
with some sodium pentathol and THEN trade him over to the Russians?
It should be clear that we ought to treat him in a manner that will make
others less willing to do what he did.

						Mark Terribile
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