Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Better DEAD than RED Message-ID: <2017@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 08:57:32 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2017 Posted: Tue Jun 11 08:57:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Jun-85 01:43:38 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 37 > <> > > I think that anyone who seriously contends that we are under the threat of > Soviet domination is somewhat deluded. The only people under threat of S.D. > are (maybe) the Afgans, and various & sundry client states around the world. > But seriously, you & me having to learn Russian? Not bloody likely. > > Soviet (and American) experience abroad has shown that it is no longer possible > to hold down a population for very long. Not when the whole population is > completely against the idea. > > One must sincerely question whether any Kremlin or White House boss seriously > wants world domination. That's for Napoleons and Hitlers. I don't think that physical domination is seen as undesirable by either side though; they should each be provided with no opportunity to practice this. I think you are right it is hard to suppress a dissident population. It just has to be made clear to both that this would be the case and that extermination would not be a viable approach. I don't see possession of nuclear (or chemical/biological) weapons as necessary for this. I do think they are quite committed to the economic domination of as much of the planet as possible. It is also not clear to me that for people like R. Reagan in the US and whoever (unknown to me) in the USSR this is not a (quasi) religious issue; I mean a guy can only say "godless monsters" so many times before you have start wondering... . . . > > > Chris Shaw watmath!watmum!cdshaw or cdshaw@watmath > University of Waterloo > In doubt? Eat hot high-speed death -- the experts' choice in gastric vileness John Chapman