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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: those crates
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 10:57:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 10:57:17 1984
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I saw a recent posting stating that if the Sandanistas
were really looking for defensive weapons that they
would be buying French or Israelli (sp?) fighters
instead of Soviet ones.  Well, to paraphrase a paraphrase
of Nikita K.  in the "Missles of October":

"If you have a gun you call it a defensive weapon.  If
someone points a gun at you, you call it offensive."

Granted, different circumstances, but the message still
makes sense to me.

P.S.  Someone (Albrecht?) stated that we can go after
anyone fooling with the western hemisphere because of the
Monroe Doctrine.  Isn't that a little like saying that it
was OK for the Soviets to pull-off their abominable attacks
on Hungary and Czechoslovakia (sp?) because of the Warsaw Pact?

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