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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
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Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 19:33:51 EDT
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>>And I, for one, am wondering just what "the Muslims" have to do with
>>all this.  Paris is being attacked by Lebanese Maronite Catholics.
>>Have you guys been out drinking with Martillo or something?

>I stand corrected on two counts: 

Same here. You caught me this time. Thanks!

>I don't approve of anyone's collective responsibility,
>including, of course, that of Moslems.

Yes, we are all individuals. Why should an individual suffer
because he falls in some arbitrary category, some of whose
members have done harm? The individual may be completely
blameless, and retaliating against a class of individuals
for the acts of a minority in that class penalizes the
innocent and may polarize the class. Which is what the
revolutionaries want presumably.

(Which is why the strategically correct repsonse to Krudaffy
 might have been his "termination", without harming any other
 Libyans. Isolating "terrorists" in that way is a classical
 "divide and conquer" technique, while reprisals against the
 population as a whole is the classical "unify potential
 enemies against you" mistake.)

>I wish he treated Moslems as individuals (I am sure he has had
>some Moslem friends).

All the Moslems I know personally are very fine individuals, 
particularly friendly, courageous, polite and intelligent.
Also, every Jewish person I know I like and admire. I wish
the two groups would stop fighting each other, and instead
figure out how to deal with Soviet imperialism.