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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 22:11:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 22:11:36 1986
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Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
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>I vehemently DISAGREE !!
>
>I am pleased and proud that we finally have a President who has the
>guts to stand up to a petty bully like Kaddafi and to deliver a slap to
>his wrist to make him realize that he goes too far.  Look back at recent
>history and YOU tell ME who is "directly responsible for the the death
>of children and innocent people."

But that's ALL that Reagan did.  He gave Ghaddafi a slap on the
wrist and NOTHING ELSE.  He is as free as before to dynamite baby
carriages as he was before.  The bombing raid was spectacular and
generated lots of publicity, and made Reagan look like he was doing
something but it had no effect on the Libyan "War" effort.

If Reagan were to send in an American Death Squad to take out
Kjadafi, I would have a lot less of a problem since it would not
involve the deaths of anonymous people who may or may not support
Kadophi's program, but a bombing raid kills just as many random
civilians as anything Qaddaphee could ever dream up.  The only
difference,  is that an air strike was done by a legally recognized
branch of the Government beaurocracy.


>As an American, and as a human being who is sick of reading in the
>papers of yet another senseless death at the hands of terrorists, I
>FULLY BACK my President in the actions he took.  I know that I could
>not have exercised the restraint in limiting the strike as he did.  If
>Kaddafi "retaliates" by killing more innocent people -- be it in
>Germany, Italy, Greece, France, the United Kingdom, or the United
>States -- I would GLADLY hear that Reagan graduated from slapping
>Kaddafi on the wrist to LEVELING the city of Tripoli.

Really now.  You think that everyone in Tripoli supports Kaddaffi?
Or maybe you think that the city of Tripoli is an physical
extension of Kaddafffi--you know, a 'hive-mind', famed of science
fiction song and story.  Instead of just turning Tripoli into
rubble, how about reducing the entire Islamic world to bedrock.
That would REALLY show the Colonal.



In case you didn't get it.  The previous paragraph was sarcastic.
I don't have anything good to say about Quadafi, but I have a
severe problem with dealing with him in methods that are GUARANTEED
to kill innocents at the same time.  Would destroying Washington
D.C. be an appropriate method of stating your disagreement to
Reagan?


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