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From: dew@ihlts.UUCP (dewysama)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Why are we at war with USSR?
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 14:42:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 14:42:04 1984
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Concerning the political relations between the US and the USSR,
Marx some time ago pointed out that all such matters are
fundamentally economics, so there is nothing surprising in 
Heimlich rediscovering this view.

It seems to me that much of Nixon's foreign policy was  based
on increasing trade with the USSR, but as it is written
            *it takes two to tango.*
After all, we did not build the Berlin wall.  The Soviet government
is and always has been inherently paranoid and apparently oblivious
to the ethics and cooperation that underly business.  

I heartily agree that if there is any hope of imroving our
relations, the initiative will have to come from us.
Reagan certainly hasn't done much to bring us closer together.
I fear, however, that trying to reason with a nation that shoots
down commercial airliners as a matter of state policy may present
a few unexpected difficulties.
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