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From: matthews@harvard.ARPA (Jim Matthews)
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Subject: Re: The United Nations
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 08:58:27 EST
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> I have no interest in defending totalitarian governments.  They are awful.
> What I'm wondering is why Jeane Kirkpatrick and the Reagan Administration
> defend their buddies in Chile, South Africa, and Turkey.  I'm willing to
> condemn the whole kit and kaboodle; are you?  And, more to the point, why
> *won't* the Reagan Administration?
> 
> Mike Kelly

	I have no love for the human rights practices of any of those
countries; however, I believe that leaving those countries to revolution
would give us the worst of both worlds: a country with equally bad or
worse human rights policies *and* a government that isn't friendly (if not
outright threatening) to the the U.S.  "Condemning the whole kit and
kaboodle" is not a realistic option for a world power facing other, agressive
world powers.

Jim Matthews
matthews@harvard