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From: gelfand@valid.UUCP (Brooks Gelfand)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 18:06:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 16 18:06:57 1986
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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)

Twenty-three Americans killed by terrorists are twenty-three too many.
One of the reasons that goverment exists to protect the lives of its citizens.
Perhaps it is not that the United States values the lives of its
citizens too highly, but that other countries do not value theirs
highly enough.

Brooks Gelfand