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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Berman's Bet
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 20:29:00 EDT
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/* Written  1:48 am  Aug 31, 1985 by inmet!janw in inmet:net.politics */
> OK, Gene, its a bet: 50 cents says your free world fascists: Botha of
> South Africa, Marcos of the Phillipines, Pinochet of Chile
> are gone before  counterrevolution succeeds in Nicaragua,
> Angola or Afghanistan. 
>                  Andy Berman   ..ihnp4!ihlpg!berman

3 comments suggest themselves apropos this extraodinary wager.

 First, there is a semantic problem. To call the Afghan resistance
"counterrevolution", Mr. Berman must believe that the Soviet
invasion constitutes "revolution". Is this at all possible ?

 Second, as far as Afghanistan is concerned, the Soviets may indeed
be winning Mr. Berman's bet for him. Their current strategy is
very simple and consists of *methodically exterminating the whole
rural population*. It may work.

 The third comment flows from the second and concerns South Africa.
If the racist bigots there could sink to the *Communist* level,
they could solve their problems. There *would* be majority rule.
The *whites* would become the majority, by murdering the present
majority. Fortunately, there are no signs of them contemplating
such a "solution" - which fact underscores, once again, the moral
chasm between the team Mr. Berman is betting against, and the
one he is rooting for.

	Jan Wasilewsky
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