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From: berman@ihopb.UUCP (Rational Chutzpah)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: It Can Happen Here
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 09:18:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 09:18:34 1985
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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

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