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Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 17:52:00 EDT
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   This article (by "Tex"?) dismisses as "silly" that we might have
from the start more or less ignored Qaddafi, instead of building hi up
as has occurred.  It should be noted that France has had far more Arab
terrorism directed against it and has suffered far more casualties as
a result (I do notcount the Marines in Lebanon as victims of
"terrorism"); yet France followed the policy of essentially ignoring
Qaddafi, i.e. not treating him or Libya as a special case to be
singled out. I realize this does not mean that France is necessarily
right and we are wrong, but surely it at least suggests that from
the viewpoint of millions of other human beings that kind of policy is
not "silly." Indeed, they consider the American obsession with having
to hit back and vindicate one's national macho as at least counte-
productive, if not also immature and hence silly.

Tom Schlesinger
Plymouth State College
Plymouth, N.H. 03264
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