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From: lllenoir@uok.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: After Granada, who's next? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:17:56 EST
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uok!lllenoir    Nov  3 01:19:00 1983

Actually if I thought it would be effective
I would be all for doing something in the
before mentioned countries but I wouldn't
support such actions now for the following reasons.


It's a bit late to do anything in Nicaragua
(at least in a very short period of time
and with a low casualty rate) because we
have waited to long. The Russians now have
a pretty good hand hold on the country 
and such an act could quite easily result
in a face to face confrontation between
the super-powers.

The same reasoning holds even more true
for Cuba but there is also one othere 
reason why we probably won't be sending
in the Marines anytime soon..

You see, we signed this treaty back during  
the Kennedy administration saying something
to the effect that we would leave Cuba
be if the Soviets refrained from deploying
missiles there. now in the other places
mentioned...


                   Lionel L.
                   U. of OK

ps- I am really no war-monger.. I just
happen to belive that certain things
are worth fighting for. (LL)