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From: nowlin@ihu1e.UUCP (Jerry Nowlin)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.followup
Subject: Re: Disarm. & Foreign Policy
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Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 14:04:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 18 14:04:34 1984
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     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
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