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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sat, 19-Apr-86 22:56:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 19 22:56:53 1986
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>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???

>Cpt Brian Boyter                   ((       ))
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>                                    Muammar...
>                                 Where are you???

I suffer no such illusions. Some people put nuclear mushroom clouds
in their signatures.

I do however see with my own eyes that this wonderful violence that
people are so proud of having inflicted on Libya seems not to have
done much to accomplish its stated goal. Am I too critical? What can
I expect! We bomb them to stop terrorism and then it increases the
terrorism...Mr Shein, you expect too much!

It is such an easy answer, let's nuke 'em. But it doesn't work, can't
you see that with your own two eyes? Didn't we learn this in VietNam?
We dropped uncountable TONS of bombs, threw our military might against
a populace and in the end lost (oh, I see, we didn't have our 'heart'
in it? well, we sure dropped enough tonnage, I think that's just a
poor apology for an outright failure, face it, we lost fair and square.)

So what -should- we do? Well, maybe we should all paint ourselves
blue and dance naked in the streets, looks like it will do about
as much good as what we are doing now, it'd be more fun also.

I have little doubt in my mind that Qaddaffi (Gaddafi, Khaddaffi, Khadafi)
is a lunatic, but I think we give this lunatic far too much credit, I
mean, think of it, we credit him with being behind 20 years or more
of calculated, world-wide terrorism...boy are we in trouble!

I remember we figured in VietNam if we could just kill Ho Chi Minh
the war would just come to an end. Well, Ho dropped dead anyhow and
it didn't help a bit, no one ever bothered to explain that one though.

When are we going to see through the paradox of our own propaganda.
We are a democracy, we believe in the will of the people. When a
'people' believe in something we don't like...well...then it must
not be the people...must be some lunatic at the helm, the lone
gunman theory of international politics.

I think we gotta either deal with the issues or be ready to dabble in
genocide. This current policy is clearly getting us nowhere. How
about the hard road, there's a lot of real unhappy people out there,
some of them are so desperate they'll do some really crazy things
to prove their point, like throw bombs (you figure out which side
I am speaking about). Some of them might even have some real gripes
but, out of frustration, will follow a madman.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University