Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1e.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihu1e!nowlin From: nowlin@ihu1e.UUCP (Jerry Nowlin) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.followup Subject: Re: Disarm. & Foreign Policy Message-ID: <318@ihu1e.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 14:04:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1e.318 Posted: Tue Sep 18 14:04:34 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 03:22:52 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 32 Oh come on guys. I never said I was an expert on foreign policy. Or were you in awe of my insight? I only know I feel very nervous when someone I don't know or trust has their finger on the trigger of a gun, and that gun is pointing at the world's head. It used to be you had to worry about some nut in the bunker pushing the button because his girl friend left him, his longjohns were too tight, or the chili/borscht he had the night before had taken over his mind. It would have been a "mistake" if the button had been pushed though. Nobody in their right mind actually considered pushing it. Now there are some heavy weight decision makers out there starting to think in terms of winning a nuclear war. We have to worry about someone pushing the button on purpose. Probably someone who's family has already been secured in one shelter, while he pushes the button from a shelter somewhere else. I don't favor unilateral disarmament to the exclusion of other solutions like the nuclear freeze movement or bilateral disarmament. I just don't want to wait around for an "agreement" to be reached. Unilateral means we can do it without waiting for the Soviets to approve. Since we've been waiting over 3 years now for the President to speak to them I don't see any light down that tunnel. I think foreign policy isn't the real disagreement here. I'm worried about the future of the planet first and my country second. You arms racists are only worried about your country. If you can't have it the way you want it, you'll see that nobody has it period. Jerry Nowlin ihnp4!ihu1e!nowlin