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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1496@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 14:24:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1496
Posted: Mon Apr 28 14:24:03 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 20:43:30 EDT
References: <470@bu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
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Summary: Pat answers aren't that helpful

In article <470@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Over and over again people in favor of the air raid keep saying "What
>else could we have done?", no matter how many times they are told, oh
>well, they'll probably ignore this one also:
>
>DEFUSE THE PALESTINIAN SITUATION BY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTION
>
>That is, get the PLO, Israel, Jordan and whoever else is appropriate
>to the bargaining table and just settle it. The US could offer to
>foot at least part of the resultant bill for putting the plan in
>action. . .

Hell, why not invite the IRA and the governments of Eire and Ulster and
the United Kingdom while we're at it.  Gee, for that matter let's bring
in Vietnam and Cambodia and Harlan Ellison and the producers of Twilight
Zone.  Let's get all these problems sorted out once and for all.  If the
US government won't fund this I'll be glad to contribute what I can.
They can use my apartment and my ice cream maker and I'll move in with
friends until peace is achieved.  Why didn't any of us see this before?
Why, if Barry had posted this sooner, maybe we could have had Jimmy
Carter negotiate a peace between Israel and Egypt.  Or better:  We could
have had Nixon send somebody (Kissinger, say) to try to work things out
way back in the 60s!

>Easy to say? Maybe, but it sure hasn't been tried with any sincerity.

I'm reminded of the "Our Ugandan Correspondent" column Alan Coren used
to do for PUNCH.  "Idi Amin" wrote from beautiful downtown Kampala, "hub
of the Universe," to suggest creating a Palestinian homeland in Northern
Ireland, after transporting the IRA to the Sanai where they could set
off bombs without causing damage.  He painted a lovely picture of
Palestinians marching up and down Falls Road singing Orange patriotic
songs about the Battle of Boyne and so on.  To head off potential
criticism he closed by saying, "You may not think much of this idea, but
who's offering anything better?"
>
>	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Oh.
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D Gary Grady
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