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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: A Pleasant Precedent
Message-ID: <1434@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 20:39:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdrago.1434
Posted: Wed Sep 17 20:39:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 02:09:38 EDT
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Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <5348@decwrl.DEC.COM> mahoney@bizet.dec.com writes:

>>3)According to Jan's attitude the acceptance of any sort of aid
>>  precludes the rights to any opinions or free speech.  
>
>    There is a question though.  If the US is so bad why take our money?
>    One other question if Zimbabwe is non-aligned why do we never hear
>    attacks upon the Soviet Union? 

	1) They take the aid from the US because they need it.
	2) They haven't attacked the Soviet Union because it doesn't support a
government that has bombed Zimbabwe.

>
>
>    There are many problems with Reagan's policies I will agree.   I do not
>    see a problem with consistency though.  If a government is pro-US it 
>    will get support.  If it is not Pro-US then there will be major problems
>    with relations. 

This is the problem that the US has in the world.  They give aid to
countries based on the opinions of their governments, not on whether aid is
needed.  In Nicaragua, the people suffer from shortages and terrorists
because the Sandinistas are not "Pro-US", even though they are much more
humane than Somoza.  Why?

											Bruce Kirby
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