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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Kidnaping Shiites
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:36:00 1985
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>/* jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) /  3:20 pm  Jun 25, 1985 */

>That's one thing this latest kidnapping outrage may do--bring home to
>Americans some costs (apart from financial ones, and we just borrow enough
>to cover those) associated with our uncritical support of Israel.

I agree that we shouldn't be giving our uncritical support (clearly, we
haven't been).  However, there is no reason to distort reality in order
to persuade people of this.