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: <638@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 03:22:50 EDT Article-I.D.: argon.638 Posted: Thu Apr 24 03:22:50 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-May-86 03:25:10 EDT References: <157@unido.UUCP> <2578@jhunix.UUCP> Reply-To: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell) Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK Lines: 48 In article <2578@jhunix.UUCP> ins_argr@jhunix.UUCP writes: >I rather believe that in the United States and the net most people will see >that this country was pushed into this act. Some facts: >1) Col. Gadaffi attacks Americans and Europeans for no possible >reason, knowing full well that they had nothing to do with his >paranoid ``grievances''. If the reason Gadaffi attacks at all is due the existence of Israel and the statelessness of the Palestinians, then The Americans and Europeans have everything to do with it since without their support, Israel wouldn't exist. >2) The US attacked military and governmental tagrets in Libya >only when it had concrete evidence of Libyan complicity in the murder >of an American and a Turkish woman; and dozens of GERMANS, Mr. >Bormann, were injured as well. 1). noone has shown any CONCRETE evidence as yet. 2). It's about time the Americans stopped fighting other peoples' battles. If the Germans wish to take action over deaths of their citizens, OK, but you (Americans) can't use that as a justification for bombing Lybia, or anywhere else for that matter. >3) Libya is an outlaw nation which promotes acts which should be >repugnant to any civilized human being. Libya WITHOUT PROVOCATION, >as a matter of policy, murders Westerners and flaunts its successes. >By no means is Libya the only nation involved in state terrorism, >but it is the nation most likely to be affected by retaliation. >Syria, for instance, is stronger militarily and less outcast from >the world community. I don't see any economic retaliation from the US. It still buys oil from Lybia, which accounts for a great deal of their income. If the US really wants to bring Lybia to its knees, stop buying oil. But I suppose that might affect Reagans popularity. >4) I personally feel disgusted at incessant European complaints >over American policy, when it was hundreds of thousands of >Americans who died to liberate that continent from the darkest >tyranny of this or any other century. > And we are very grateful for that. But don't forget that the US was very isolationist until Pearl Harbour forced it into the war, so don't try and claim that the US entered the war to protect Europe, it was to protect itself. -- 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 |