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From: ethan@utastro
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Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 01:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 01:08:00 1986
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> Indeed.  We are also grateful (or should be) for the unthinkable numbers of
> citizens of other countries who were killed or maimed in the same conflict,
> not least our Soviet allies on the eastern front.
> 
> George D M Ross, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland

And I am, not the least of which reason is that some of them were cousins.
I do feel that they got the rawest deal of anyone save the victims of
the concentration camps.  They prevented a foreign tyrant from overrunning
Russia and doing to them what their homegrown tyrant was already doing
quite efficiently.
-- 
"Ma, I've been to another      Ethan Vishniac
 planet!"                      {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               ethan@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas