Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihopb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihopb!berman From: berman@ihopb.UUCP (Rational Chutzpah) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: It Can Happen Here Message-ID: <665@ihopb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 09:18:34 EST Article-I.D.: ihopb.665 Posted: Mon Jan 21 09:18:34 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:21:25 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 38 In a rather odd attempt to justify the inhumane policies of the Reagan Administration, Greg Kuperberg drags up a few popular myths. First he casts the old "holier than thou"phoney patriotism by implying that criticism of the Reagan regime is a comdemnation of the United States itself. How many times must we go through this cheap shot Greg? The fact is that the policies of the Reagan administration in Central America as well as domestically betray the best interests of the people of the United States. Patriotism is cheapened when it's used to justify the current regime. A truer patriotism is one that tries to set the policies of one's government back on a pather of committment to just and human values from which the current regime has strayed. Next he drags up the case of Cambodia: >1) War deaths in Cambodia in the past ten years (largely due to war with >Soviet-backed Vietnam): > Greg Kuperberg The insanities in Cambodia in the post 1975 years can be directly traced to the massive destruction wrought upon that society by 7 Billion dollars worth of Bombardment of that country by the Nixon regime. The killing ended when Vietnam moved in and helped throw out the Khmer Rouge. However history judges Vietnam's move in Kampuchea, it cannot ignore fact that the killing ended. . The exception is the area along the Thai border where remenents of the Khmer Rouge along with rightist elements continue skirmishes based on arms supplies from the CIA and China. Andy Berman -- -------------------------------------------------- "My life is so complicated, it's a good thing I'm such a simple person that I can understand it" -Ed Balchowski