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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: USS Liberty - part II (long)
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 06:01:07 EST
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In article <12530@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>In article <3381@sun.uucp> cramer@sun.UUCP (Sam Cramer) writes:
>[a very interesting article about the Liberty incident.]
>
>I don't know much about this particular incident, but in war time
>such incidents are almost invariably due to mistakes rather than
>intention.

Come on Tom.  Accidents are due to mistakes, and deliberate attacks are
due to intentions.  War has both.  Until we know which the Liberty was,
it is both impossible and unethical to write it off on mere probabilility
grounds.  It deserves its own impartial investigation.

>           Anytime something like this happens you can almost
>bank on the fact that someone has screwed up somewhere.

How many times has something like the Liberty incident happened?  Exactly
once.  What relevance is the fact that other incidents have occurred and
have usually been do to horrible misunderstandings?  None at all.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720