Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmum.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!water!watmum!cdshaw From: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Responding to Terrorism Message-ID: <199@watmum.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:36:58 EDT Article-I.D.: watmum.199 Posted: Tue Jul 2 09:36:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:20:59 EDT References: <500@ttidcc.UUCP> <920@sdcsla.UUCP> Reply-To: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 29 In article <920@sdcsla.UUCP> west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West) writes: > >You appear to miss a major point of the hijacking, which is that >Lebanon is a mess and we've helped make it that way. We can't >pretent to be an uninvolved bystander when we've been supplying the >arms and money that has been fueling the conflict there for over a >decade. >-- > >Larry West Institute for Cognitive Science I have some questions.. Who (in Lebanon) has the US been supplying with arms in order to "fuel the conflict". I don't mean just selling weapons on the world's arms market, but government-sponsored support. Agreed, Lebanon is a mess, but did the US have a starring role in the conflict? Or did the US just sell popcorn? The point I'm trying to make is that I don't think that "we've helped make Lebanon a mess" is a justified charge, especially when considered over the last 10 years. The same goes for Israel, since it is only recently that Israel has gotten involved with Lebanon (in order to destroy the PLO). Lebanon's internal troubles have been their own fault for a long time. Chris Shaw watmath!watmum!cdshaw or cdshaw@watmath University of Waterloo I was walking down the street one day, when suddenly... my baloney melted !