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From: kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1313@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-May-86 04:59:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 14 04:59:48 1986
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In article <2322@hcrvx2.UUCP> jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>
>*
>In article <152@suneast.uucp> geoff@suneast.uucp (Geoff Arnold) writes:
>>When I first perceived the strength of the popular support for Reagan's
>>action (media reported, but probably correctly so), my first reaction
>>was "How the hell can I stay here? I could never feel a part of
>>such an amoral society?". (My disgust reached a peak when I read George
>>Will in the Boston Globe, saying how he could hardly feel regret about
>>bombs hitting the French Embassy.) 
>
>Perhaps George was remembering how France and Italy had agreed, in the
>70s, to let *known* terrorists come and go at will as long as they
>did not carry out any of their missions on those countries' soil.
 
Not unlike the US courts which have consistently refused extradition
for known IRA terrorists so long as they do not bomb, murder and maim
on US territory.
 
>Seems to me that ***that*** is the height of irresponsibility,
>cowardice, and selfishness. 
 
Sure does!
 
>
>I am not sure if the US's bombing of Libya will do any 
>good, however, I certainly find that action several
>orders of magnitude less distasteful and much more honest than 
>that of France and Italy. With countries like those two it's no
>wonder terrorism is doing such booming business.
 
Make that 'countries like those three'...
 
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