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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Wisdom of European Heads of State
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 11:07:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 11:07:38 1984
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> 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

It is the past "wisdom" of such leaders that led to World Wars I and II.
We should realize that there is a VERY important difference between this
missile deployment and past missile deployments in Europe--in the past
the host country always possessed one key which was needed to fire
the weapons.  In that way BOTH Germany and the US for example would have
to agree to begin a nuclear war by launching these weapons.
But now the US *only* has the key: which means that Reagan could unilaterally
decide to fry all of Europe with no veto power from the European gov'ts.
How would Americans like foreign gov'ts having such decisive power over
us?
tim sevener whuxl!orb