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From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Reagan's re-election
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Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 01:56:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 18 01:56:16 1984
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> In article <106@talcott.UUCP> gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) writes:
> >
> >What is odd in this case is that the Europeans are more critical of their
> >allies than they are of their adversaries.
> >
> Sorry, I don't think that the placement of US nuclear weapons in Europe is
> being done to defend Western Europe. I believe that whereas these weapons 
> might possibly be regarded as a part of the US defence, their presence in 
> Western Europe is a threat to us over here.
> 
> We would be better off defending ourselves from the Eastern Block (which I 
> detest) by ourselves without any so called "help" from the other side of the
> Atlantic. Please keep your missiles where they belong - over there.

If the weapons are in Western Europe, it is because the elected heads of
state of these countries saw fit to have them put there. If it were truly
against the self-interest of Western Europe to have the missles there,
the European governments wouldn't allow it. And I'm sure that the leaders
of the governments understand the situation a lot better than most of
the knee-jerk pacifists who have been making most of the protests.

	Wayne