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Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Iraq/Iran warfair?
Message-ID: <359@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-May-84 12:59:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 12:59:08 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

When you have two belligerents of the class of Iraq and Iran there
are three things you can do:
  1) Get involved on one side or the other.  This can lead to another
     Viet Nam type situation, or global escallation as in WWI & II.
  2) Take on both sides at once.  This leads to various posibilities:
	 i) another power who wants the war to go on gets involved
	    (e.g. the USSR) and we now have a major war.
	ii) they both decide to fight you instead of each other (which
	    makes you unpopular throughout the world).
       iii) you mop up quickly and now find yourself running a police
	    state in the name of peace.
  3) Leave them alone.  This is the course that I favor.  Iraq will soon
     run out of ammunition and equipment, while Iran will soon run out
     of grade schools to get front line cannon fodder from.  Consider it
     evolution in action (obviously not an original idea).  Clear out all
     innocent bystanders, and let them duke it out.  Anyone left in the
     way is not an innocent bystander--they are either out to make a 
     wartime profit (in which case they deserve what they get) or they
     live there (in which case they deserve the government which got
     them this war).


The subject header refers not to all being fair in love and war, but to
the Laissez Faire attitude I propose.

	    From the (far from the front lines) Soapbox of
	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.

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