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Subject: Re: Closed eyes to the raping of a nation
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 10:43:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 10:43:09 1984
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> A recent article in the local newspaper told how those beloved, 
> self-appointed caretakers of the earth --the Soviets, are removing 
> Afghan children, ages 7-9, from their families, and taking them 
> (all expenses paid) to the great Motherland for TEN YEARS of 
> indoctrination into communism and the grand, Soviet way of life.
> Sounds like something out of of the television series "V" 
> doesn't it?  Ah, but these lizards are for real. 
> 
> A question that I can't ignore --in Kampuchea (sp?) the government
> had a neat policy for getting rid of any possible resistance: starve
> 2 million people to death. Where are those children going? Or does 
> anyone care? 
> 
> A related news story: 450 Afghan rebels were summarily executed
> when they surrendered to Russian troops. How's that for conversion?
> 
> The world has turn its back on Afghanistan.

But what can we do? Nuke the Russians because they are doing these things
in Afghanistan? There's not much we can do about it, except to try and
ensure that such things don't happen again by supporting nations that
the USSR is now threatening. It makes you wonder about the sanity of people
who are always complaining about how terrible the US is when it comes to
"imperialism", but don't seem to realize what we are up against in fighting
the USSR...

	Wayne