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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: THREE DAYS AFTER (net.movies)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 00:03:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 00:03:44 1983
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>My feelings is that if I don't want war, and I'm sure most of you
>don't want war, of any kind, then why do we have wars????
>Population control?Egomania?An eye for an eye?HolyLand?

Absolutely right!  No one wants war (there are probably a few psychopaths
who do but all cynicism aside, I doubt they have that much to say).

The question I see is:  "How badly don't you want it?"  How much are you
willing to put up with before you decide to fight?

For example:  If we REALLY don't want to fight a war with Russia, we COULD
invite them to come in and take over our government--with our combined
resources, I doubt that we would have to fight anyone else either if we
did.

Please, before you let your flames loose, look at what I said--can you
deny what I said.  Note that I DID NOT SAY that that was the ONLY way to
avoid a war with the USSR.

The point I'm trying to make is:  Hardly anyone wants war but hardly
anyone is willing to avoid it regardless of the cost.  I doubt that a
society that did avoid it at any cost would survive long enough to even
get mentioned in the history books.  I can't think of any--can anyone
else??

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
				Denelcor, Inc.
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