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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <2322@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 17:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 17:52:27 1986
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Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

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In article <152@suneast.uucp> geoff@suneast.uucp (Geoff Arnold) writes:
>When I first perceived the strength of the popular support for Reagan's
>action (media reported, but probably correctly so), my first reaction
>was "How the hell can I stay here? I could never feel a part of
>such an amoral society?". (My disgust reached a peak when I read George
>Will in the Boston Globe, saying how he could hardly feel regret about
>bombs hitting the French Embassy.) 

Perhaps George was remembering how France and Italy had agreed, in the
70s, to let *known* terrorists come and go at will as long as they
did not carry out any of their missions on those countries' soil.
Seems to me that ***that*** is the height of irresponsibility,
cowardice, and selfishness. 

I am not sure if the US's bombing of Libya will do any 
good, however, I certainly find that action several
orders of magnitude less distasteful and much more honest than 
that of France and Italy. With countries like those two it's no
wonder terrorism is doing such booming business.

>...................................... And after all, if you look
>back, practically everything that Reagan has done in foreign policy has
>got initially enthusiastic popular support followed by a rapid cooling off.
>(One poll reported that most people now feel that Grenada was a mistake.)

One must wonder why, since *that* military operation had the support
of the Grenadians themselves. A point that the Down-with-the-US crowd
always manages to conveniently overlook.

J.B. Robinson