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From: tim@isrnix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ronald Rayguns Strikes Again - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 22:28:58 EST
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isrnix!tim    Dec 17 10:33:00 1983

  I am very concerned about the reports of shoulder launched SAM
missiles on the White House grounds.  I am concerned that it
indicates a paranoid and unstable mentality-much like Nixon's
during the Watergate investigation.  Do we want a paranoid in the
White House with his finger on the button?  Rayguns is feeling
very beleagured these days-but he loves it! Last week he gave the
speech saying that "America would never be weak again!" and
how the latest actions of the American military in Grenada,
and Lebanon showed the American "standing tall". Since when were
we ever "weak"?  We have had the power to blow up the world for
many years now--moreover we have military bases in more countries
of the world than anyone else--our economy ,if not the overwhelming
force in the world it once was, still outstrips the rest of the
world by a longshot.  Rather than being a sign of "strength",
it seems to me invading a little country like Grenada is more
like the "strength" of the bully who takes candy from a baby.
Does it prove how "strong" he is, or how foolish and immature?
When you have great power you must recognize your own strength
and use it wisely.  If somebody driving a 200 horsepower car acted
as if they were merely riding a bike many people are likely to
get hurt in the process. So it is with our incredible military
might and our ability to blow up the planet--it is ridiculous to
go throwing it around for no good reason.
  I am very concerned that Reagan thinks he's back on the set
of some Hollywood Western or War movie--of course nobody really
gets hurt in those, after it's over the actors all get up and
dust themselves off. Unfortunately this is real life and if
World War 3 starts there won't be anybody dusting themselves off
for very long--just long enough to die of radiation poisoning,cold
or starvation. (whichever gets them first)
  
 tim sevener
 Indiana University, Bloomington
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