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From: osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
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Subject: Re: How about a temporary net.libya?
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 02:28:08 EDT
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Uh, regarding limiting a net.politics.terror to net.Libya: my vote is "no."

I have several reasons for saying this. First, Libyan terrorism, while very
salient upon the world scene, is part of a MUCH larger socio-political
context which cannot be ignored. Aspects of this context would inevitably
be drawn into the discussion, anyway, so why not allow as much comprehensive-
ness as we need to make our points? 

Second, much of this context will deal with the multitude of ideologies
corresponding the various rationales for terrorism/non-terrorism. Kadafy's
hatred of our long-standing support of Zionism is a case in point. Indeed,
Zionism (esp. that from 1940 to about 1975) has been responsible for atrocities
that in many cases would make Nazism look pale in comparison, both in coldness
and in consistence. Taken as a whole since the Balfour Declaration of 1917,
Israel's sanction of wholesale slaughter and mass disspossesion makes 
Kadafy's look like a church picnic. Any protracted discussion of terrorism
and hatred of the U.S./Britian will eventually have to take this sort of thing
into account, as well as a few dozen other "versions of the story" on BOTH
sides. 

So, in my opinion, we should keep it at net.politics.terror, since that's what
the content will inevitably include anyway. In fact, I'd be more comfortable
with something like net.politics.mideast. 

Ron Morgan


and dispossession makes Kadafy's look like a church picnic.  
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