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From: dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 14:43:34 EDT
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In article <3212@reed.UUCP> soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) writes:
|
| It bothers me that this attitude, that Khadaffi is running
| roughshod over us, so we just have to do something, is being used
| as an excuse to do what seems to me to do something flashy just so
| we can congratulate ourselves upon being decisive.  
|
| Instead of being orgasmic over the fact that we used our BIG STICK
| for a change, could the supporters of the action (of which I may or
| may not be one) please explain just  what worthwhile was
| accomplished that made the cost--moral and material--justifiable.
| -----------------------------------------------------------------
|
| 		        	Have A Nice Day,
|        				Soren Petersen

How about causing the European Allies to finally begin to take
diplomatic and economic action against Libya??  Until the raid,
there were no significant limits on Libyan diplomats(or whatever
they are), except in England.  


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