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From: tos@psc70.UUCP (Dr.Schlesinger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Afghan rebels and Contras:  a difference
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 05:48:13 EST
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    It would seem virtually impossible for the Afghan to commit what
is normally called terrorism, i.e. kill innocent civilians in order to
frighten and otherwise "promote" their cause. The only remote
possibility would be if the Soviets were still bringing any of their
families to Afghanistan to accompany them while they serve. Knowing
something of conditions there, this is extremely unlikely. Hence the
only people that Afghan guerrillas can logically attack are the Soviet
military, as you already said -- unless one supposes that they've
taken to killing their own people indiscriminately... which, of
course, is what our CIA-pimped Contras apparently were doing when they
were still in Nicaragua, instead of back in Honduras where they are
now.


tom Schlesinger
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, N.H. 03264
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