Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mmm!mkr From: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya Message-ID: <775@mmm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 12:17:20 EDT Article-I.D.: mmm.775 Posted: Tue Apr 29 12:17:20 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 06:40:13 EDT References: <157@unido.UUCP> <312@daemen.uucp> Reply-To: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Organization: none Lines: 22 In article <312@daemen.uucp> fox@daemen.uucp (Merlin) writes: > As for the similiar methods, $%^*@&!!!, we did not use car bombs, bombs >in airports, submachine guns in public places, and we did not attack libya >to get attention we did it to protect ourselves. I for one would like to >travel abroad without having to worry about being blown to hell in some airport, >anywhere! > > David Fox > Aside from which, the people living next to the military targets at least have the option of *moving*, so they won't be in the strike zone. But Qaddaffi's "strike zone" is the whole western world (well, Europe and the Mideast, anyway), and *those* civilians don't have the opportunity to avoid being in a war zone. Comparing an attack on military targets to gunning down people in an airport is absurd - laughable if it weren't so sad. --MKR "There's nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot." -"Dirty" Harry Callahan