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From: rupp@cod.NOSC.MIL (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to RUSSIA
Message-ID: <884@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 15:31:09 EST
Article-I.D.: cod.884
Posted: Tue Nov  3 15:31:09 1987
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References: <8710141028.aa02272@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk> <114@karhu.tut.FI> <116@karhu.tut.FI> <148@magic.csinn.uucp>
Reply-To: rupp@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
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In article <148@magic.csinn.uucp> schiltz@csinn.uucp (Jean Pierre Schiltz) writes:
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>I also would like to say that for me the discussion that is 
>going on between American people sounds a little bit strange... The pros and 
>cons of the soviet policy are for me not that different from the pros and
>cons of the US policy - not the same language, not the same methods, but 
>probably the same purpose, right ? .....
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Well, here at least is one example of a Eurpean who seems to have
difficulty distinguishing the motives of an expansionist, undemocratic,
closed society that has to steal ideas and technology from those of an
open, democratic society that is about the only great power over the
last century to *voluntarily relinquish territory*, and whose ideas,
technology, and (for better or worse) values have been imitated in many
parts of the world (including in some cases the other country we are
speaking of).  

Certainly the motives of great powers will coincide in some areas.  But
I maintain that a moral equivalency is something that the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R. do not have in common.


Bill

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I speak for myself, and not on behalf of any other person or organization
.........................How's that, Gary?
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