Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!teddy!lkk From: lkk@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.social,net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy Message-ID: <796@teddy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 17:26:35 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.796 Posted: Wed Jun 19 17:26:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 01:59:22 EDT References: <686@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <171@nvuxb.UUCP> Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 75 Xref: watmath net.politics:9490 net.social:702 net.women:5967 net.flame:10654 Summary: In article <171@nvuxb.UUCP> mark@nvuxb.UUCP (Scum of Earth) writes: >I pissed as hell. I`m pissed because the U.S. is being held hostage >by a few Shiite Lebonanesse,. Reagan should have wnt in right >away and freed the hostages. Now it is to fuckin late, the hostages >are all hidden away in the slums of Beruit. I think its time America >puts it foot down and stops being the big brother to the rest of the >world. >I know its hard to be a democratic society and refrain from military >intervention. But that time has come !!! The US has been held hostage >by those barbaric`s in the middle east before. ANd its time we showed >them whose in charge. How and why are we letting ourselves be held >hostage by a group of people whose numbers equall no more than a 1000. >I am all for dialogue, but when one of our own gets killed needlessly >its time to step in. >Reagan should ask Isreal for the realease of the Shiite prisoners then >blow beruit off the face of the map. How can he even trust Berri, when >he himself is a Shiite. >It is my belief that Shiite stands for SHIT!!! {FLAME ON BABY} >Why is it okay for Russia or an other country to use military force, but >if the US does we get stepped on by the whole world? >Damn am I pissed: I hope when Reagan goes before the country tonight >he advises the Shiites that the US will not give into Terrorist Threats.. >How do you feel? > >-- > >suicide is punishable >>--------------------> Mark Friedman, Red Bank N.J. >by the death penalty Now, now, calm down, get off your pedestal, and remember, this is reality, not the A-team. The current hijacking crises IS quite appalling. It makes you sick to see innocent victims being terrorized for political reasons of which they are entirely ignorant. and selecting Jewish passengers for special treatment, etc. BUT, LET US KEEP OUR PERSPECTIVE... This hijacking did not happen in a vacuum. The overall situation in the middle east is very much the responsibilty of the United States govt., and the Amal is a product of that situation. According to the NYTimes, Nabih Berri used to be a moderate before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. When the U.S. govt. wants to apply pressure against an adversary, they have many resources at their disposal to do so SUBTLY. The can apply economic pressure, or use the C.I.A or what have you. Dispossed groups like the lebanese Shiites have only one means at their disposal to prod the superpower U.S. to action, and that is terrorism. Hit them where they're vulnerable. I'm not condoning the hijacking. All I ask is that you cut the flag-waving jingoistic shit and realize that the US govt., in supporting contras, or random tinpot dictators, plays the exact same game as the Shiites. But since they only terrorize third-world peasants, we can conveniently turn a blind eye to THEIR terror. A plague on both houses. -- Sport Death, Larry Kolodney (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc