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From: andrew@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Andrew Fleming)
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Subject: Re: Re: Libyan Air-raid/ open letter to
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 10:02:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 10:02:12 1986
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>In article <127@paisley.ac.uk> andrew@cs.paisley.ac.uk (Andrew Fleming) writes:
>> 	So Europeans are wimps eh ? Can you then tell me why the big
>> macho Americans are cancelling holidays to Britain ? Why is the Rambo
>> man afraid to come to Europe ? As to statement only Americans are getting
>> blown up and killed, remember when Thatcher decided to support the 
>> strike against Libya, she effectively signed the death warrant of two
>> British people, and endangered the lives of numerous other members of 
>> Britain !!!! So you before you make any other simple-minded statements
>> kindly make sure you know what you are talking about.
>
>It is true that MKR is exaggerating when he says that the Europeans quake and
>quiver in the face of a political bully.  Perhaps it is more appropriate to say
>that they don't know a bully when they see one.  (The Austrians recently
>demonstrated that they don't know a Nazi when they see one either, but that's a
>different story.)  The fact of the matter is that you guys let terrorists
>through *your* airports so that they can put bombs on *our* planes and hold
>*our* passengers hostage.  No, Americans are not the only victims of terrorism,
>but they are a big target of international terrorism.  I quote the Israeli
>Ambassador to the UN (from Time Mag.):  "One third of [international] 
>terrorism's victims since 1970 have been Americans."
>
>As to Americans cancelling holidays in Europe, I have several points to make.
>Firstly, the expected outcome of the raid on Tripoli was that international
>terrorism would increase some in the immediate future, but in the long run it
>would go down, especially if we continue our current policy.  Secondly, don't
>call us "Rambo men".  I refuse to be labelled by a violent and offensive which
>was made by some moron in Hollywood who tries to think with his muscles.
>

If you had read the article you would have seen I said "Rambo man",
not "Rambo men", I in no way intended to imply that the vast majority
of American are anything like Rambo, apologies that if that's how
it came across. Still I think Americans are cancelling holidays to
Europe because of the Libyian affair



			Andrew Fleming