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Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 12:54:10 EST
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> > 
> > I am not surprised that a German express sympathy for an anti-Semitic
> > lunatic bent on world-domination (according to his Green Book) and who
> > used terror as means to further his political objectives.  Andreas
> > Borman, there was a place for you in the SA.  If France and Britain
> > had treated Hitler in the 30s as Reagan treats your friend Gaddafi, 40
> > million who died in WWII might have lived.
> > 
> > Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
> 
> I will try to avoid terms like "addle-brained idiot" and "disgusting pig".
> I will merely point out that Andreas Borman expressed no sympathy whatever
> for Moammar Qadaffi in his original posting.  He merely said that Reagan's
> actions make him as much a terrorist as Qadaffi.  You may disagree with his
> opinion, but it in no way makes him a Nazi.  Furthermore, the situation in
> Libya is *not comparable* to that in Nazi Germany.  It's true that both cases
> have maniacal dictators who hate Jews, but that's where the resemblance ends.
> 
> I think Mr. Ajami owes Mr. Borman an apology.  I doubt that it will come.
> -- 
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)

That's not where the resemblance ends.  

1. Just like the 1930s, a lot of people professed pacifism as a solution 
to the problem of a maniac -- and because of the collective unwillingness 
to take action, the maniac is emboldened.

2. Just like the 1930s, many people in this country are making excuses
for the maniac's actions.  (See the recent net.politics posting in which
someone claimed that Kaddaffi is only a problem to his own people --
demonstrably false, and not dissimilar to the sentiments of those Americans
who felt that Hitler's wasn't our problem.)

3. Just like Germany's situation, there are some aggrieved parties who
are getting the shaft (Germany in the 1930s because of the Treaty of
Versailles, Palestinians today because of Israel), and a maniac taking
advantage of that legitimate concern for his crazy purposes.