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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <3212@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Apr-86 17:20:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 25 17:20:18 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Apr-86 04:50:43 EDT
References: <157@unido.UUCP> <858@ihlpl.UUCP> <891@harvard.UUCP>
Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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In article <891@harvard.UUCP> tomczak@harvard.UUCP (Bill tomczak) writes:

>I am not a supporter of Reagan or his thinking.  He
>scares me because he seems too eager to use the military to bargain.
>Something HAD to be done. . .

It bothers me that this attitude, that Khadaffi is running
roughshod over us, so we just have to do something, is being used
as an excuse to do what seems to me to do something flashy just so
we can congratulate ourselves upon being decisive.  

Instead of being orgasmic over the fact that we used our BIG STICK
for a change, could the supporters of the action (of which I may or
may not be one) please explain just  what worthwhile was
accomplished that made the cost--moral and material--justifiable.
The bombing raid did not do anything to disrupt the Libyan
terrorist industry.  It did nothing to weaken Khadaffi's resolve to
continue as he had before.  It did not succeed in killing Khadaffi,
and would have been immoral even if it had  (the firing a crowd to
kill a murderer syndrome mentioned in someone elses posting).  What
good did it do?

I don't believe that it is right to engage in actions that will
result in the deaths of innocents just so that American closet
Rambos can "feel good about themselves", and I am somewhat at a
loss to see just what else it did.

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			Have A Nice Day,
				Soren Petersen

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