Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcsri!utcs!mnetor!sophie
From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
Message-ID: <970@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 09:43:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.970
Posted: Wed Jun 12 09:43:36 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 13:33:50 EDT
References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP>
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 21

>  1. the people in charge are old and personally I think this makes
>     them a lot more likely to die.  ronnie reagan probably doesn't
>      have nearly as much desire to keep living as I do; he's going
>      to go soon anyhow.
>  
Actually, I think this psychological analysis is somewhat flawed.  My impression
of people as they grow old is that in general they become more scared of dying
rather than less.  Maybe because death seems more real, who knows....

I do seriously wonder what we happen if "our side" was to unilateraly disarm.
Would the "ennemy" really have all the resources needed to invade the rest of
the world and maintain their power?  Given that they probably do not have
enough resources to invade with conventional weapons, would nuked-out wastelands
really be of any use to them?  Even if we assume that they managed to
successfully invade the rest of the world with conventional means, would they
ever be able to keep their power against an opposition of 4 (or is it 5 now)
billion people?   This all seems pretty unlikely to me, and it often makes me
believe that the "red menace" is a hoax.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
{allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie