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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
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Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy (My alternative?)
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 23:54:04 EST
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Subject: Re: American Foreign Policy

Bob Gottlieb (gottlieb@alliant.UUCP) writes:
  
> Finally, I must ask the obvious - what do you propose as an alternative?

I haven't proposed  any major change to the system. My focus was foreign policy
issues. I'll stay with that here:
 
The constitution was  written a fairly long time ago when foreign policy issues
were not quite as  important  as they are today.  Many foreign policy decisions
are just as important (sometimes more important) than internal issues nowadays.
Even the effects are not as  removed as they  used to be. (Let's face it, these
days  you  will  think  twice  about  travelling to even Europe, let alone (God
forbid) the Middle East or South/Central America or parts of Africa. If you  do
go to Europe, make sure you stop over in London's airport to see the tradition-
ally unarmed British policemen guarding the airport with machine guns.)
            
So I think  foreign policy issues should be debated just as rigorously as any
other issues before any solutions to them are implemented. Surely, that can't
be against America's national interests. 
                                              Farzin Mokhtarian  
					    
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