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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
Message-ID: <1469@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 00:19:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 24 00:19:59 1986
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Keywords: Libya, Britain, U.S.

In article <7206@sri-spam.ARPA> robert@sri-spam.ARPA (Robert Allen) writes:
>
>    Hello there.  I suppose that most people by now are aware of 
>the fact that France is under terrorist attack.  At least 5
>bombings, diplomatic personel assasinated, etc..
>
>    I find it interesting to note that France refused the U.S. use
>of their airspace during the attack on Libya, assumedly because they
>did not want to antagonize the terrorist community.  However, of the
>two countries which took part in the attack, the U.S. and Britain, 
>neither has suffered retailiatory terrorist atacks, and in fact overall
>terrorism has declined against those two countries.
>
>    Could it be that appeasement is not the answer?

The fact that there were a number of terrorist attacks in France has
nothing to do with the american bombing of Libya.  The attacks in Paris
have been carried out by a small group of radical, lebanese terrorists that
couldn't care less about Khaddafy's daughter.  They are attacking France
because the french hold one of their members in prison.

The fact that there were no retaliatory terrorist attacks in the US is of
no particular interest because they were virtually non-existent before.
All it proves is that Reagan's hype about Libyan control of terrorists is
bulls**t.  Otherwise, there would have been retaliation. (Killing a
lunatic's daughter isn't about to promote friendship.)  The vast majority
of terrorist attacks do not involve americans,  despite their media's
self-centred ignorance of this fact.

	Bruce Kirby
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