Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb From: robertsb@ttidcb.UUCP (Robin Roberts) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Ethiopia Message-ID: <221@ttidcb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 17:52:58 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcb.221 Posted: Wed Dec 5 17:52:58 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 02:43:05 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 36 < Wow! Reality, what a concept! > I was listening to the latest network tv news drivel on Ethiopia and wondering to myself how the news programs could act like it was a) suddenly news where it wasn't before, and b) isolated to Ethiopia when all of East Africa and a lot of Sub-Saharan Africa is suffering from the same drought effects. But a additional thought occurred to me. I find it inconsistent that we are a) slapped on the wrist when we try to influence/sway/overthrow a government of a third world country we feel is aligned against our interests, but b) told we are responsible for feeding the people of that country when the government WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO UNDERMINE spends money ( several million ) celebrating its revolution instead of feeding its people. The way I look at it if we aren't allowed to influence their government then we aren't responsible for feeding them. BUT I will conceed the converse, if we are responsible for their government then we ARE responsible to help feed them. If we're the world's farmer then we CAN be the world's policeman. -- Robin D. Roberts (213) 450 9111 x 2916 TTI Zone V4 aka Buskirk the Valerian 3100 Ocean Park Blvd Death to Tyrants ! Santa Monica, CA 90405 UUCP: ..!ucbvax!ihnp4!vortex!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or {cadovax,flick,philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex,wtux2}!ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb or ttidca!ttidcb!robertsb@RAND-UNIX.ARPA