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From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Ronald Reagan's response to hijackers
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 21:50:36 EDT
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>>> My prediction of the next Reagan ultimatum:
>>> 
>>> 	Alright you evil terrorists, either you release the
>>> 	captive Americans immediately, or we'll invade another
>>> 	Caribbean hotbed of communism!
>>> 
>>> |  [ O-O ]  |    Todd Jones
>> 
>> That would make lots of sense.  How about this reply to a mugger: "If you
>> rob me, I'm going to go home and beat my wife."  Makes about as much sense
>> as telling a Shiite that you're going to overthrow a Communist country.
>> 
>>             Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }
> 
> Colin, that doesn't make any sense! that would be like me detonating
> a nuclear device because my officemate refused to return a pencil he 
> borrowed.
> 
>   [ O-O ]       Todd Jones

The point that I was trying to make was that by invading an innocent country
because some terrorists took hostages, we would only be taking out our
frustrations on something else, only because of our own feeling of impotence
in this case.

I admit that it was not a good analogy, but it wasn't meant to be one. It
was meant to show how what you originally said was a non-sequitor by giving
a worse one.  

To quote some utterly unreasonable fool, "Do I have to follow all my
facetious responses with a sideways smiley face?"

----
            Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }

"I suspect that CMU would deny ever knowing me, let alone sharing my views."