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From: lllenoir@uok.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lebanon and Grenada - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 23:32:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 23:32:58 1983
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uok!lllenoir    Nov  1 20:46:00 1983

I also have registered for the draft
and I guess that gives me a vested interest
in what the American military does abroad.
The idea of going out with a gun a shooting
at people makes me nervous but that's
because I'm human and I think it would
affect most people that way.
So when ever I see the U.S sending troops
somewhere you had better bet that I pay
some attention and see what's going on.

Sending the Marines into Granada was one
of the best things we could have done.
Those people that say the only justification
Reagan had for doing it was to gain support
for his 1984 presidential campaign need
to take a closer look at the facts.

Sending troops to Lebanon was a less 
intelligent act simply because we put 
them there and wouldn't allow them to 
do anything. This is sad because it took
the death of 200+ marines to show the 
folly of that course of action. In my
opinion, the Marines should stay in Lebanon.
Some would argue that the death toll is
to high and that they should be brought
home now. That would be stupid.
First of all think of the message that
this would send to the world (and the 
people responsible for the bombing).
To bring them home under these conditions
would be like saying .. Ya we pledge to
help bring peace here.. but only if it
doesn't hurt us.

The other reason (at least as important as the first)
is the morale of the troops themselves.
They are angry and want revenge on whoever
caused them the loss of their comrades.
To order them home now would do nothing
but harm to them and to the country in
general.


Well that's my opinion (sorry I got on 
a roll).

Lets here from some of you other net
persons. This topic has caught my interest
in a big way.


                  Lionel Lenoir
              University of Oklahoma