Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!jcp From: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto ) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Reagan's re-election Message-ID: <5765@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 02:48:25 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5765 Posted: Wed Nov 14 02:48:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 02:25:50 EST References: <6166@mcvax.UUCP> <3171@ucbvax.ARPA> <47@uwvax.UUCP> <106@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: jcp@brl-tgr.ARPA (Joe Pistritto ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 31 In article <106@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) writes: >> >> Europeans have every right to criticize our defense policies, as it is much >> more likely to directly affect them than us. How would you like it if France >> (for instance) intended to house nuclear-tipped cruise missles in your town? >> > >What is odd in this case is that the Europeans are more critical of their >allies than they are of their adversaries. Going on with your analogy, yes >I would be concerned if France did that. I would be much more concerned, >however, if Cuba pointed high-yield, MIRVed ICBM's *at* my home town. Yet >few Europeanse that I've met are very concerned about those inconspicuous >SS-20's... >-- > Greg Kuperberg Not odd at all, Greg! Some Europeans of this day, (unfortunately some of the more vocal ones, both on the net, and in the populace at large), seem to have the typical European attitude, of "Well, if I don't annoy the bear by holding this rifle here, he won't try to have me for dinner, you see". This is also called the Neville Chamberlain policy, and strangely enough, Europe has been seriously afflicted with it, (with occasionaly outbreaks in the US), before BOTH World Wars in this century. Of course, they don't have to worry too hard, there's always the U.S. across the sea to bail them out... (may not be time for that this time though!) -JCP-