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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Reagan and arms reductions: re to guy
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 09:48:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 09:48:53 1986
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> >> From Tom Albrecht:
> >> The only thing worth working
> >> for is a verifiable arms reduction treaty.   And that's what Reagan is
> >> doing.  We have to keep an eye on those sneaky Communists or they'll try 
> >> to get the best of us every time.
> >> 
>  
> >If Reagan is truly interested in "arms reductions" why has he
> >*always* opposed a bilateral Nuclear Freeze?  It would seem to me
> >that any *reductions* imply *stopping* the arms race at the very
> >least.  This Reagan has been totally unwilling to do.
> >If Reagan is truly interested in "arms reductions" then why does
> >he refuse to stop all American nuclear testing while the Soviets
> >have stopped their nuclear testing for the past 6 months?
> 
> Maybe these things aren't in the best interests of the people of the US.
> Besides, why stop the race when the other guy is ahead?
> 

I see, it is in the best interests of the US for the Soviets to resume
their nuclear testing and consequent nuclear weapons development?
It is in the "best interests" of the US for the Soviets to continue
deploying 5 more nuclear weapons every day?  If the Soviets *were* already
ahead in the nuclear arms race (which they are *not* - even Caspar Weinberge
said he would not trade the US nuclear forces for the Soviet nuclear forces)
then they are getting *more* ahead every day that Reagan refuses to
negotiate any end or even control of the arms race.
 
I would like you to explain how continued nuclear testing by the Soviet
Union is in  the US people's interest.
 
        tim sevener  whuxn!orb