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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1347@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 02:23:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 30 02:23:30 1986
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In article <223@rtech.UUCP> jeff@rtech.UUCP writes:
>Oh, wonderful.  Captain Boyter fantasizes about dropping atomic weapons on
>Libya.  If that should happen, I guess he'll be dancing in the street when
>his flesh is burned off his bones by the Soviet Union's counter-strike.

The Soviet Union would in fact be delighted if the U.S. dropped an A-bomb
on Libya.  There is nothing they could do, and few things we could do, which
would do more to alienate us from our European allies.  Wavering countries
all over the world would move one step closer to the Soviet camp (neutral
instead of allied with us, allied with them instead of neutral).  It could
well be the turning point of the whole Cold War.  But they would *not*
respond by launching a strike against the U.S.  They are no more suicidal
than the next man.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108