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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sun, 20-Apr-86 14:22:04 EDT
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>Britain is now paying the price for US support in the Falklands War: so
>far one bomb at Heathrow, three dead in the Lebanon, and one more kidnapped
>there.  When the next request for support comes, will Margaret Thatcher
>act in the interests of the British people and the rest of the world and
>resist US pressure ?  Judging by her record, the outlook is not good.

Wait a minute, giving in to terrorism is acting "in the interests of the British
people"?  I would think that it would be in the interests of the British
(and for that matter all) people to not encourage terrorism, and giving in
is one sure way to encourage its continued use.  Do you really think terrorists
who are shown that terrorism is effective will stop using terrorism?

>There's a simple approach to eradicating terrorism in the middle east: bomb
>them into submission.  There would not be many people left there when that
>was completed, but who cares, we only want the oil anyway.

Unfortunately this is an argument by caricature.  The bombing was not aimed at 
Libyans in general, but at Kadaffi.  

>The only humane and practical way to deal with the problem is to address
>the root cause:  Arab nationalism in general and the plight of the
>Palestinians in particular.

The "root cause" is the refusal of most of the Arab states in question to
recoginze that Israel has a right to exist.
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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