Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Christopher) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: RE: Reagan's joke Message-ID: <1803@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 01:29:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.1803 Posted: Thu Sep 6 01:29:08 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Sep-84 07:30:33 EDT References: <1717@sdccs6.UUCP> <479@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 10 I agree, the current policy of the USSR is probably not directed towards invading Western Europe. What we do have to keep our eyes on, though, is their policies towards the Middle East. Today Afghanistan, tomorrow Iran, and the next day Saudi Arabia... After the fall of the Shah this area has become the least defended and most valuable areas for Soviet expansion. Western Europe is just a diversion, at best... Wayne