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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: A Pleasant Precedent
Message-ID: <1143@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 11:50:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 11:50:57 1986
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In article <7802361@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
> Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe, speaking at the non-aligned
> meeting in Harare, denounced the Libyan raid and the US support
> for the Angolan insurgents as acts of "international bullyism".

Which they are.

> In a very short while, he learned the happy news: the USA stopped
> bullying his country with any further foreign aid.

Golly, does that change the nature of the Libyan raid and the support
for the Angolan insurgents?

> People often ask why there's so much anti-American sentiment
> abroad. Why, it's because this kind of normal and sane response
> has been so rare on the part of the State Department.

"Normal and sane", huh?  I suppose that next we get to watch you
whine when the Soviets or Chinese start providing them with foreign aid.

> But is this the way to make us loved? Yes, it is: in many places,
> people know about the USA mostly what the national  leaders,  and
> controlled  media, tell them. If the leaders get the incentive
> not to vilify the US, that makes a difference.

That's right!  We should be economically pulling the strings of their
media.  Obviously we should ensure only good propaganda about ourselves.  :-(

> Foreign dictators sure  have  the  right  of  free  anti-American
> speech  -  but  not  paid for by the American taxpayer! 

Mugabe is not a dictator.  However, by those same standards, any backbone
site could stop transmitting your articles.  Perhaps we should persuade
some to take that normal and sane response.  :-(
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh