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From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS)
Newsgroups: btl.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re (etc): BTL Takes the Lead
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 10:38:46 EST
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Brilliant says: "In fact, if all nuclear arms were multilateraly destroyed,
                 we would be helpless against the military might of the USSR."

I strongly suspect that this view is grossly in error.  There has been a
lot of recently published evidence that the Soviets are not so mighty
after all.  They don't seem to be doing any better in Afghanistan than we
did in Vietnam.  Their armed forces are riddled with corruption and decay.
The average soldier is quite cynical.  Heroism is not to be expected.

The american citizens can be expected to be even more intractable an enemy
than Afghanis or Vietnamese.  The logistics of Soviet INVASION of the US
are such that the event is extremely unlikely without the support of nuclear
weaponry.

Brilliants claims of Soviet invincibility and American helplessness are
incredible.

--Norm Andrews, AT+T IS, Holmdel, N.J. ariel!norm