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From: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
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Subject: Re: Kaddafi
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 11:37:19 EDT
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>	Now, I am not going to say that the Reagan Administration does
>not have problems. I am not entirely sure why we went into the Gulf
>in the first place. Defending a twelve mile limit has no strategic
>advantage to the US.

   Not true. Without the twelve mile limit many important waters become 
closed. Waters such as the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the English Channel
would cease to be freely navigable if surrounding countries decided to 
claim a wider coastal authority.

>West Germans do not want another Hitler much the same way the US
>does not want another Nixon. 

   Probably in a worse way.

--Brian