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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Schultz on International Terrorism
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 08:56:48 EST
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Whoa, wait just a cottin-pickin minute.  Let's all just take
a deep breath and think back a few weeks to a time when every
red blooded democrat in the land was raising their fist and
shouting 'Huzzah, Huzzah' when Fritz the Wimp said that he
would retaliate immediately if terrorism was used during his
administration.  Is this any different than Shultz's remarks?
Besides, it is not the President's policy as of now, so what
can Shultz do?  It would be the Wimp's policy, according to
his own words.  I, for one, do not think blind retaliation
in any form is appropriate in these terrorism situations.  Just
as in the Harrod's Department store incident in London when
the IRA set off a bomb among Christmas shoppers, the British did
not rush off to blow up some Irish Department store.  One of
the most difficult things to do in these situations is to
separate the terrorists from the rest of the crowd of
innocent people.  According to the Wimp, he would just blow
hell out of any area that might contain terrorists.  You
just can't do that.  I can see it now.  Terrorists attack
the Embassy in Beirut while the Wimp is President.  The Wimp
pulls the New Jersey up off shore and levels the Moslem quarter 
in the city.  Then he sits back and says "I guess that will teach
those terrorists a lesson."  About the only person who would
not feel bad about such a thing would be the Wimp, a few followers,
and Martillo.
T. C. Wheeler