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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: RE: Expanding nuclear arsenal
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 09:52:26 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 23 09:52:26 1983
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Phil Polli (ihuxl!pvp) reveals the well-mannered naivete that seems
very common on the net ...

...  [The Soviets] are brutes, and
should be treated as such.

(another one from plunkett-person)
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Plunkett isn't the only one on the net who disbelieves the humanity
of the Russians.The plunkett-people of the net seem to like
to use "naive" to describe people who think Russians are human.

But suppose for a moment that they are "brutes". How then should we
treat them? With caution and with kindness, surely. Wild brutes
need to be tamed, dumb brutes to be trained. We don't accomplish
that by refusing to deal with the brutes, or by obviously shying away
from every sign wishes for improvement in relations. We try to avoid
being eaten while we work to persuade them to stop wanting to eat us.
If they don't change, we still have to keep on trying. Even Russian bears
can be tamed.

One thing we can't do is to make them go away. We must either share
the Earth with them, or eliminate the Earth for both of us.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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