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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.politics,btl.general
Subject: Re: Re: Re: BTL Takes the Lead
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Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 17:01:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 17:01:56 1983
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From Phillip Polli:
  > If the recent Sagan study is correct,
  > we don't even have to deliver our bombs to the Soviet Union.
  > All we have to do is explode them in our own country, and the
  > resulting world-wide holocaust will destroy both of us anyway.

The operative word in this statement is IF!

  > >  HA!  Personally I am VERY glad that Ronnie
  > >Reagen is tough on the "Red Menace".

  > Unfortunately, Ronald Reagans "toughness" is all talk and no action.
  > At least Carter had the guts to cut off Russian grain shipments
  > and boycott their Olympics. What has Ronnie done besides give more
  > money to defense contractors to build more bombs, and make sneak
  > attacks on little islands in the Carribean? We used to think that
  > there was something morally repugnant about a country that would send
  > their airplanes in a sneak attack on another country. Remember
  > Pearl Harbor? At least the Japanese had the guts to attack someone
  > their own size, and a sense of shame when they discovered
  > that the declaration of war had not been delivered before the attack.
  > We seem to have neither.

How about the deployment of missiles in Europe??  You don't think that
was being tough on the Russians??  Then why are they so unhappy over
this development and trying every thing they can think of short of
war to thwart this deployment??  I cannot figure how you could
characterize Carter as a tough President.  The cutting off of the
grain shipments hurt Americans much more than the Soviets.  Boycotting
the Olympics was not too effective either.

Your are spouting the same old tired rhetoric about Grenada and I
will not even bother to respond to that.  You will have to admit that
the public indignation in Grenada was not even slightly comparable
to that in the US after Pearl Harbor.  Also, Reagan avoided a
situation that was the downfall of Carter by invading Grenada, namely
another potential hostage situation.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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