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From: ptb@ukc.UUCP (P.T.Breuer)
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Subject: Re: Protesting the Beirut Hostage Crisis
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 20:29:50 EDT
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In article <1406@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>In article <716@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>
>>Protect their people from the Israeli army? The Israeli army
>>is not attacking random civilians.
>
>What exactly, then, was the shelling of Beirut?  (or the air attacks on
>terrorists that just happen to be in civilian villages).  Regardless of the
>rightness or wrongness of this particular action, it was the attacking of
>random civilians.  It probably wasn't the intention of the Israelis to
>kill innocent bystanders, but that's pretty poor consolation to the
>ones that are dead.
>
>You aren't going to do any cause any good by asserting something that is 
>clearly wrong.
>
>It's a damn shame that both the US and Israel (and to a certain extent,
>Great Britain) were so heavy handed and indiscriminate (eg: the American
>shelling of the Beirut area) in their intervention in Lebanon.
>-- 
>Chris Lewis,
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Not Britain, at least not recently. We sent a token peace-keeping force of 100
men. They may not have done much good but I think they literally didn't fire a 
shot in anger.