Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!medin From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re : Re: Re: Harold Brown and the arms race Message-ID: <4080@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 19:52:21 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4080 Posted: Tue Jan 8 19:52:21 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:33:16 EST References: <1133@drusd.UUCP> <2082@randvax.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 15 Nonsense. The Russians haven't attacked because it is not in their best interest to attack. Why lose anything if you dont have to? Clearly the Russians have gotten their way with the US in the past without firing a shot, but by simply taking advantage of various elements in the US which have a sympathetic viewpoint, or by negotiating agreements which favor them, or various other means. BUT, if they were pushed against the wall, as in Cuba, what they would do is a different story entirely. They bgacked down then, whether or not they would back down now is not clear at all. Milo