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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: re: Canadian Military
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 17:51:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 17:51:37 1985
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> ...  Sovereignty does demand strength but the nature of
> that strength is no longer military.
> ...
> Sovereignty does not follow from divine right supported by military might.
> Sovereignty follows from social, economic, technical and cultural strength.
> It my view, the best path to security is collectively to perfect the skills
> required to be successful in our own environment.  That is the most
> effective leverage against the destruction of either ourselves or our
> environment.
> ...
> I would feel more secure if I were sure that militarism could be made
> obsolete.  Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. provided hopeful examples.
> That is the kind of strength that I look to in this star-wars age.

I'm sure this is a great comfort to the Afghans, who are armed with WWI
rifles and are trying to fight tanks and helicopters.  "The pen is mightier
than the sword, but which would *you* rather be armed with in a duel?"

In the current world environment, the ability to defend yourself against
armed aggression is often one of the skills required to survive, let alone
be successful.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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