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From: vassos@utcsrgv.UUCP (Vassos Hadzilacos)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Reagan's re-election
Message-ID: <470@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 11:41:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 11:41:56 1984
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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>> Europeans have every right to criticize our defense policies, as it is much
>> more likely to directly affect them than us.
> 
> What is odd in this case is that the Europeans are more critical of their
> allies than they are of their adversaries [...] 
> few Europeanse that I've met are very concerned about those inconspicuous
> SS-20's...

Maybe Europeans (as well as other `U.S. allies' who feel the same way)
have reasons not to be `very concerned about those incospicuous SS-20's'?
Maybe you've been taken for a ride all along about the `Soviet threat'?

I don't know if you realize how arrogant and patronizing it is to be
telling others what they should be concerend with, especially when
it is clear (from their viewpoint, anyhow) that your suggestions of
who they should consider their friends and who their enemies are hardly
disinterested.

Vassos Hadzilacos