Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!FRCPN11!PHARABOD From: PHARABOD@FRCPN11.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: un-American Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 17:02:48 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 27 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway Leonard Abbey writes (Thu, 8 Feb 90 11:44:53 EST): >I just realized that your latest posting implies that the US has somehow >let the Chinese students down. How is this? We send them to school, >have guaranteed them physical safety, assured them of the rights which >they will never have in their homeland, and we give them money to gripe >and whine on TV while guzzling beer. >How is this to be construed as letting them down? >Leonard Abbey In order that you understand what I mean, I think the best is to recall an exchange I had with Tim Johnson, who said excellent things: >Date: Fri, 22 Dec 89 13:24:20 EST >From: Tim Johnson >Subject: Re: Sovsymps >>What about Chinese sympathisers (Nixon, Kissinger, Bush, Scowcroft, >>Eagleburger)? I never heard a word from you about them. >> Jean-Pierre Pharabod >Sorry, Jean-Pierre, leaving out the Chinese apologists was not >intended to imply support. I find the recent statements of the >Chinese apologists repugnant in the extreme - Kissinger in >particular. I was even going to add them to the post as an >example, and only left them out to keep the posting short and >concise. You are, of course, correct. The Stalin apologists, >the Deng apologists, the old Hitler apologists....all belong >to that same breed of political ostrich. > -Tim