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From: mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1290@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 12:29:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlvd.1290
Posted: Fri May  2 12:29:24 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 06:18:24 EDT
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Reply-To: mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Division, U.K.
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In article <858@ihlpl.UUCP> res@ihlpl.UUCP writes:
>I was angered when I learned that the planes involved in the slap on
>Kaddafi's wrist were not allowed to over-fly France or Spain, adding
>around 2500 extra kilometers to their flight, thereby greatly
>increasing the hazard to these aircraft and their crews.  I am even
>more angered that the people of Europe do not have the guts to stand up
>to this petty tyrant in Libya, and are willing to accept the deaths of
>innocents as a blood-price for their own uninvolvement.
>
>But, what the hell, it is only Americans and Jews who are being killed,
>and a few others caught in the crossfire, so why should a German or a
>Spaniard, or a Frenchman give a damn?  These are not really people,
>with loved ones and families who have been machine-gunned, and what
>European really gives a fuck about an old American tourist in a wheel
>chair whose brains were blown out for the amusement of a
>Kaddafi-trained assasin?

I didn't notice quite such vehement condemnation coming from the
Whitehouse when it was believed three Britains had been executed in
Beirut after the bombing of Tripoli (though I think it increased
slightly when it was realised one of them was American).

> ...I would GLADLY hear that Reagan graduated from slapping
>Kaddafi on the wrist to LEVELING the city of Tripoli.
>
>I am saddened that the free people of Europe think so little of their
>freedom and so little of the lives of innocents that they are unwilling
>to step down on that nasty little worm in Libya and free the world of
>that sick murderer.

Unfortunatly the American way of "freeing the World of that sick
murderer" seems to include freeing the World of the population of
Tripoli (which I would guess includes several hundred/thousand
European ex-patriates living there).

If we want people to stop murdering innocent people, shouldn't we
start by stopping to murder innocents ourselves.

Mike Woods.


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