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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 00:00:00 1985
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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Summary: 

While not too many people keep "Better DEAD than RED" as their motto,
I think it is important to point out that the opposite is a very
dangerous viewpoint.

It has been suggested that most people would prefer living in a
soviet dictatorship to being nuked.  That's quite true, but it misses
the point.  The real question is who would prefer soviet slavery to the
RISK of nuclear war.

Nobody asks for nuclear war.  We got our arms buildup because we had
to do something to protect ourselves from the soviets.  Otherwise we
would be another Yugoslavia, Czechosolvakia, Poland, East Germany,
need I go on?

Given that we had to do something, what choices did we have?  In
the early days, only the west had nukes, but eventually there was
no stopping the East.  From that point on, a nuclear defense was
necessary.

I don't like the excessive escalation and I certainly don't like the
mismanagement that our government gives us, but I would rather have
a nuke that only a madman would set off than live as a slave.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473