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From: mike@enmasse.UUCP (Mike Schloss)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <284@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 12:02:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 12:02:31 1986
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Reply-To: mike@enmasse.UUCP (Mike Schloss)
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In article <774@epistemi.UUCP> irene@epistemi.UUCP (Irene Orr) writes:
>To those of you who think that Americans are being slaughtered wholesale
>by international terrorists, an interesting statistic: out of 928 people
>killed by international terrorist action in the year preceding the
>bombing of Libya, 23 were American.
> 
>This does not seem to me to justify any claim that the USA were "forced"
>to take action, unless of course you value one American life at about 39
>other lives.
>
>		Irene Orr
>		(..mcvax!ukc!cstvax!epistemi!irene)

We obviously have different beliefs about how to respond to terrorism.
I feel that it doesn't matter whether it is one murder or 23 murders 
or even 928 murders.  There should be some response although the level
of response may be different.  I would like to know where YOU would
draw the line.  When it is OK to use violence in the form a a military
strike.  How many people must die first.  One is obviously not enough,
23 isn't enough, and 928 doesn't even seem to be enough.  Is 1000 the
magic number?  We should reach that in a couple of month's.  How about
10,000.  If you go back through the records far enough we probably have
seen that many deaths due to worldwide terrorism.  I don't know you but
I would guess that the number for you, like most people, would probably
be one death, if it was the right person.  If someone you loved was
killed by terrorists I think you would want some retribution.  In the
past year 928 families have experienced this.  I think they deserve
measurement of justice.
					Mike Schloss