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Subject: Re: PWhat if They Threw a War... - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 01:31:32 EST
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isrnix!tim    Nov 28 20:30:00 1983

  I always wonder at people who think any moves towards peace will lead
to invasion as a matter of course.  I also wonder at how "weak" we must be
to be unable to defend ourselves against an immediate invasion when a little
nation like Yugoslavia has successfully avoided a Soviet invasion for
almost 30 years. Why do countries wish to invade each other in the first
place? We say that we have to defend our "vital national interests"
(read that as $$$$$$!)in the rest of the world by spending $1.6 trillion
over the next few years?? Seems to me that this course of "defending national
interests" presents very few benefits compared to the costs--what if we
invested a like amount in solar energy, or trying to feed the hungry, in
medical care, in improving technology for the benefit of ALL mankind?
Then rather than have such enormous resources sitting idly in missiles and
bombs waiting to destroy the world and our fellow human beings, what if we
distributed the fruits of such investments to everybody in the world?
Would the rest of the world be itching to invade us ? Why?
Is the Soviet Union really so eager to cut off a major source of grain?
I think redirecting our resources to PRODUCTIVE purposes will do more
to prevent invasions and wars then piling up missiles in silos awaiting
Armageddon (which ,incidentally is NOT good for business or the economy either!) 
    tim sevener
    Indiana University, Bloomington
    pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!tim