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From: jimf@ihuxf.UUCP (Fehrenbacher)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Sat, 10-May-86 16:48:19 EDT
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> 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)

      Irene, I think you're an incredible hypocrite!!! If Arab 
terrorists murdered "only" 23 of your neighbors, you'd feel differently.
You're wearing your anti-American sentiments on your sleeve.
I don't really care what the nationality of the innocents murdered by
terrorists. Kaddafi must realize that he can't sponsor murder forever
without consequences. I guess you prefer to just let him continue his 
extra- curricular activities? Are you so naive to think that a fanactic
bully like Kaddafi can be reasoned with, or will stop supporting murder 
because he he becomes enlightened or gets religion? The fanatic 
terrorists use the fact that countries in the Western world have more 
respect for human life than they do to their advantage. They know that 
we don't lightly attack or kill people. The U.S. at least attempted not
to kill innocent people. Do you think the terrorists consider that? I
think you should wake up to the fact that there is evil in the world
and if we continue to ignore it, it will swallow us up eventually.
Until the attack on Libya, the terrorists were waging a one-way war.
No one knows if the attack on Libya will prevent Kaddafi from sponsoring
terrorism, but I learned as a child that a bully loves nothing more than
a victim unwilling to fight back. And bullies DON'T grow out of it, but
they do understand force. I believe if Kaddafi keeps on with his war
against the world, the world should fight back. (But I guess America
will have to fight for your country, much the way they had to in WW II.)

By the way, I find your human-life arithmetic interesting. It's
quite obvious that those 23 American lives don't mean much to you. (And
I'll bet the other 905 don't either.)