Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!hpisoa2!hpitg!mmm!mkr@mmm From: mkr@mmm Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya Message-ID: <775@mmm> Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 21:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: mmm.775 Posted: Tue Apr 29 21:17:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 16:14:54 EDT References: <720@ark> Lines: 22 In article <312@daemen.uucp> fox@daemen.uucp (Merlin) writes: > As for the similiar methods, $%^*@&!!!, we did not use car bombs, bombs >in airports, submachine guns in public places, and we did not attack libya >to get attention we did it to protect ourselves. I for one would like to >travel abroad without having to worry about being blown to hell in some airport, >anywhere! > > David Fox > Aside from which, the people living next to the military targets at least have the option of *moving*, so they won't be in the strike zone. But Qaddaffi's "strike zone" is the whole western world (well, Europe and the Mideast, anyway), and *those* civilians don't have the opportunity to avoid being in a war zone. Comparing an attack on military targets to gunning down people in an airport is absurd - laughable if it weren't so sad. --MKR "There's nothing wrong with shooting, as long as the right people get shot." -"Dirty" Harry Callahan