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Subject: 
Re: My over-simplification of the anti-war movement
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Date: 
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:43:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

Acting on every imagined threat is ludicrous.  China is a big threat: are we
going to invade them?  North Korea?  Cuba (maybe the Ruskies left a few
nukes behind, Fidel is getting old, and he was stupid enough to advocate
using them during the missle crisis, even though it would have left him dead
and a glowing crater for an island)?  Saudi Arabia: bag men for Al Qaeda?
Russia (they still have nukes)?

And even worse, this action sets a precedent for the above countries (along
with India, Pakistan, etc, etc) to invade other countries (including US, UK,
Australia, etc, etc), without international sanction, because they perceive
a potential threat maybe sometime in the future.

ROSCO



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  Re: My over-simplification of the anti-war movement
 
(...) I'm just not familiar enough with Blair to say, beyond I suspect he likes the idea of acting tough. Bush probably has several agendas, though the weight of each is unknown: Inherited hostility: The enemy of my father is my enemy. Though Bush (...) (21 years ago, 31-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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