Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars. Message-ID: <2089@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:27:01 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2089 Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:27:01 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 02:46:40 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP>, <970@mnetor.UUCP> <5704@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 > > 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... > > 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. . . . > > 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?