Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: `Saber-Rattling' Considered Fictional Message-ID: <1784@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 11:43:03 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1784 Posted: Thu Mar 8 11:43:03 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 02:17:11 EST Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 23 . " ... I find that Reagan's saber-rattling is pretty scary. I don't doubt that the Russians are scared of him - he scares ME, and he's supposed to be on my side! ... " (allegra!nbires!rcd) "Saber-rattling" is becoming very stagnant now. Liberals should try at least to keep their cliches circulating. Apart from telling the truth about the Soviets, understandably an unsettling thing for Conventional-Wisdom-Liberals, the current administration has yet to deploy a single MX, the B1-B has yet to be commissioned, it has merely carried through to completion the Carter administrations' decision to deploy Pershing and Cruise missiles in Europe, has rescinded a (Carter) trade-embargo against the USSR, did nothing concrete in the face of the KAL-007 massacre, has run away from the Lebanese conflict, and has proposed several radical schemes for reducing the nuclear weapons stock of both countries. This is "saber-rattling"? Calm down, chaps. -- ..{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett