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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
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Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:27:01 EDT
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> > I do seriously wonder what we happen if "our side" was to unilateraly disarm.
> > Would the "ennemy" really have all the resources needed to invade the rest of
> > the world and maintain their power?  Given that they probably do not have
> > enough resources to invade with conventional weapons...
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> If they take it a bit at a time, sure they have.  If we disarm, they don't
> need to hurry about it.  Keeping civilian populations under control is not
> nearly as hard as fighting professional armies.

 Are "they" going to nuke some small country they want to take over?
 If not then I think the "we" are surely capable of resisting with
 conventional arms.

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> And most of those 4-5 billion will be unwilling to support rebellion.  Even
> in the American Revolution, a fairly classic case of well-justified revolt
> against	foreign oppression, only about 1/3 of the population of the
> colonies actively favored the revolution, and nearly the same number
> opposed it to some degree.
> -- 
> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
It was a succesful revolution though, wasn't it?