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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 16:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 16:00:00 1985
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>/* mark@nvuxb.UUCP (Scum of Earth) /  3:23 pm  Jun 18, 1985 */

>I think its time America 
>puts it foot down and stops being the big brother to the rest of the
>world.  

Has it occurred to you that this might not have happened if the U.S.
had not tried to be "the big brother to the rest of the world" for so
long.  (Note, I am not excusing the terrorists for their actions  --  if
we can, we should blow THEM up.)

>I know its hard to be a democratic society and refrain from military
>intervention.  But that time has come !!!

Direct military intervention by us in Asia Minor now would be foolish indeed.
Let us learn a lesson from the Soviet Union's debacle in Afghanistan, if
not from our own in Vietnam.

>The US has been held hostage
>by those barbaric`s in the middle east before.  ANd its time we showed 
>them whose in charge.

Unfortunately, it appears that the Ayatollah is.

>I am all for dialogue, but when one of our own gets killed needlessly
>its time to step in.

The U.S. government should not presume to guarantee the safety of U.S.
citizens outside of its borders, since (among other reasons) it can't.
Furthermore, this may have the effect of rendering terrorism against
U.S. citizens abroad useless.

>Reagan should ask Isreal for the realease of the Shiite prisoners then 
>blow beruit off the face of the map.

Right!  It's ok to kill millions of the not guilty in order to eliminate
thousands of the guilty!

>How can he even trust Berri, when he himself is a Shiite.

The only good Shiite is a dead Shiite!  Right?

We may not be able to trust Berri, but the mere fact that he is a Shiite
does not demonstrate such a conclusion.

>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?

Who says it's ok?  The UN General Assembly?

>>-------------------->  Mark Friedman, Red Bank N.J.

						Mike Sykora