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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Re: Experimentation and Danger
Message-ID: <1860@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Dec-85 14:34:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 28 14:34:50 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <914@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>>What Jack Kemp and others who support aiding UNITA are asking us to do
>>is get the United States involved in a tribal conflict that is
>>certainly none of our business.  But I digress...
>
>Your analysis (which I deleted) is correct as far as it goes.  But the
>fact is that nations which are our enemies are supporting that govern-
>ment, hoping to gain and cause us to lose thereby.  That makes it our
>business.  The fact that it is a local, tribal conflict does make it
>only a local, tribal conflict; the presence of Cuban soldiers makes it
>something more.  (Which is not to say we should intervene.  Just that
>there is some reason for intervention.)


Since you admit there is no MORAL imperative in Angola (i.e. neither side
is per se superior), you need to justify American action there by a 
STRATEGIC analysis.

Your strategic analysis is that the presence of Cubans in Angola is some
justification for American intervention.  By that line of thinking, you
could justify Soviet interference in Central America, Europe, and the Far East.

Needless to say, the U.S. regularly expresses outrage over unsubstantiated
COVERT Soviet interference in Central America.

Who's pointing fingers at whom?
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