Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!howellg From: howellg@idec.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya Message-ID: <637@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 03:09:16 EDT Article-I.D.: argon.637 Posted: Thu Apr 24 03:09:16 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-May-86 03:24:54 EDT References: <157@unido.UUCP> <858@ihlpl.UUCP> Reply-To: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell) Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK Lines: 49 In article <858@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP writes: >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. > I am amazed that people still seem to think that by bombing others, even in retaliation you can persuade them to give up what are presumably deep seated opinions. You will note that I don't refer to either side in that last sentence; the reason being that the sentement applies to both sides. The terrorists won't win by bombing; neither will Raygun and his allies (be allies I mean Thatcher, not the mass of the British people who responded 60% not in favour in an opinion poll). I would have thought the lessons of WWII, when the bombing of London only served to stiffen resistance, would have been learnt by now. And do Americans really believe the Libyans will stop when you kill the children of their leader? Don't ask me what the answer is, but it's rarely military action. >I am saddened that the free people of Europe think so little of their >freedom and so little of the lives of innocents that they are unwilling >to step down on that nasty little worm in Libya and free the world of >that sick murderer. > > Rich Strebendt > ...!ihnp4!iwsl6!res Perhaps you should live in Europe for a while, you would see a different perspective. The camp that proclaims "Better dead than red" and other such things, usually lives in a country that has never been invaded, and has never been intimately involved in the middle of a war that is being fought in your garden, rather than 3000 miles away. -- Gareth Howell STC Network Systems Limited | ...!mcvax!idec!howellg UUCP Private Networks Business Centre | idec!howellg@seismo.CSS.GOV ARPA London Road Stevenage Herts | England SG1 1YB | +44 (0)438 738294 |