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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 15:53:30 EDT
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> 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.
> 
> 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....   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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Glad to see the Point on the net, with it's fine history (at times).
Gives us all a chance to chat about the latest issue of the Journal of
the US Army War College, or whatever.

The mushroom cloud is an interesting extension of the ``Nuke Iran''
mentality evidenced during the Carter administration.  Such ways of
approaching foreign policy has a long history in the US military, General
Custer's war of terrorism against terrorism is an obvious and early
example.  Maybe that's a bad example -- Custer's efforts eventually bore
fruit.

Are you aware of concrete evidence that Libya planned the disco bombing?
The British Parliament might be interested, if you do.

Since you seem so interested in supporting an undeclared war, perhaps you
should go re-read your copy of _On Strategy_ by Col. Harry G. Summers.
This insightful analysis of the Vietnam War from the US military's
standpoint points to some dangers of this approach to foreign policy.
It's used as a text at the US Army War College.  At the Point, also?

Cheers, jeff myers

``...I reply that since war is not an occupation by which a man [or woman]
can at all times make an honorable living, it ought not to be followed
as a business by anyone but a prince or a governor of a commonwealth; and
if he is a wise man, he will not allow any of his subjects or citizens to
make that his only profession -- indeed, no good man ever did, for surely
no one can be called a good man who, in order to support himself, takes up
a profession that obliges him at all times to be rapacious, fraudulent,
and cruel, as of course must be all of those -- no matter what their rank --
who make a trade of war.''

				Niccolo Machiavelli, *The Art of War*, 1521