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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
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Subject: Re: RE: Reagan's joke
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 17:27:51 EDT
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Re: worrying about the Soviets in the Middle East.

You missed my point.  Soviet foreign policy is to surround the USSR
with satellites and exploit advantages.  Afghanistan is not an indication
of some mythical yearning for a warm water port, as the conservatives had
us believe in 1979.   Rather, it was a chance for the Soviets to consolidate
their leadership in what was already a satellite.  Chances are those who 
suggested going in have long since fallen from power within the USSR, since
it was at least a bad miscalculation.

One needs to look at reality, not rhetoric.  

Mike Kelly