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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 02:32:06 EST
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Summary: It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...

> 
> In article <157@unido.UUCP> Andreas Borman of West Germany writes:
>> >After watching the TV pictures of the american air raid against Libya
>> >I think that I have to regard this act as an act of state terrorism.
> 
> In article <720@ark.UUCP> Peter Hommel of the Netherlands writes:
>> I think R. Reagan has done the right thing.
> 
> Let's look at the facts:
> Numero uno:   We tried ignoring Qaddafi...   but he didn't go away.
> Numero two-o: Why is he bombing a disco in Germany??
> 
> A lot of naive people think that the world is full of normal, moral,
> peace-loving persons...   this is a good generalization but Qaddafi
> is an obvious exception....   when reason and logic fail, that only
> leaves power....    either economic or military...   we the USA have
> exhusted our economic influence on Libya....

Bull.  What economic sanctions has the U.S. taken against Libya?  Have we
made the import of Libyan goods illegal?  Have we impounded Libyan funds in
U.S. banks?  The fact is that the U.S. goverment has made almost no attempt
at peaceful ways of punishing Libya.  Bombing raids make for bigger headlines.
They also kill a lot of civilians.  Don't try to say that civilian deaths
are mistakes.  They are the types of "mistakes" that inevitably happen during
military actions (such as "surgical strikes").

> that only leaves one
> thing....    What would Andreas Borman be saying if it were his
> brother under the rubble in Berlin???
> 
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> Cpt Brian Boyter                   ((       ))
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>                                     Muammar...
>                                  Where are you???
> _______________________________________________________

Oh, wonderful.  Captain Boyter fantasizes about dropping atomic weapons on
Libya.  If that should happen, I guess he'll be dancing in the street when
his flesh is burned off his bones by the Soviet Union's counter-strike.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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