Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site digi-g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!digi-g!amir From: amir@digi-g.UUCP (Amir Vafaei) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: RE: Reagan's joke Message-ID: <242@digi-g.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:30:42 EDT Article-I.D.: digi-g.242 Posted: Thu Sep 20 11:30:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:27:36 EDT References: <479@tty3b.UUCP> <1731@sdcc6.UUCP> <5971@mcvax.UUCP>, <1843@ucbvax.ARPA> <234@digi-g.UUCP>, <1957@ucRe: RE: Reagan's joke Organization: DigiGraphic Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 37 >Wait, are you talking about Afghanistan? Reactionary big landowners, >gathering together fanatic moslems to fight the government? First, >before th Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the government was overthrown >by a group of terrorists, supported by the Soviets, who then "invited" >the Soviets in to help them keep the country in line. I think it's more >a matter of villagers fighting for their lives and property than >fanatical moslem dupes. The government was overthrown by a military coup not a bunch of terrorist. The previous government was monarchy. Now if you are saying that monarchy is pro people, you have been smoking something. The villagers's life is not treathened. Mainly the big land owners who do not wish to give the land up to the people who work on it, namely the farmers. So they have gathered alot of the farmers up and using their fanatism of Islam are having them fight the Afghan and russian army. >Whatever you are trying to say, if you think that it was a case of the >big bad US invading poor Grenada, you are far off the mark. The coup in >Grenada was a Cuban/Soviet sponsored takeover, and Grenada's neighbors >were rightly worried about giving Cuba another base from which to launch >terrorist attacks against them. What you are saying is that it is ok for a neighbor to invite some one to take over another island, but it is not ok for the government to ask for help. >I should probably take back my statement about the US not having caused >problems for non-Soviet dominated groups -- some of the things that go >on in Central America are pretty obscure... But the point is that >compared to the USSR the US is practically a model of virtue. > >Wayne So you believe in choosing the lesser of the evils and not getting rid of evil and replacing it with good. As some one said, choosing Satan or the Devil, either way we will end up in Hell.