Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!sed408
From: sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy
Message-ID: <703@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:06:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihlpg.703
Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:06:23 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:41:44 EDT
References: <686@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <171@nvuxb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 58
Xref: watmath net.politics:9574 net.flame:10770


>I pissed as hell.  I`m pissed because the U.S. is being held hostage
>by a few Shiite Lebonanesse,.  Reagan should have wnt in right 
>away and freed the hostages.  

It's really easy for us to sit here at our terminals and try to decide how our
leaders are supposed to run things.  The only trouble is that you and a lot of
other people DEMAND that SOMETHING be done, but I don't see you offering any
PRACTICAL, HUMANE solutions.  I can just hear your response:  "Why should we
be humane if the Shiites aren't humane."  My response is that if you expect
others to treat you humanely, you must behave that way yourself.  Two wrongs
don't make a right and they usually lead to more wrongs!

>Now it is to fuckin late, the hostages 
>are all hidden away in the slums of Beruit.  I think its time America 
>puts it foot down and stops being the big brother to the rest of the
>world.  
>I know its hard to be a democratic society and refrain from military
>intervention.  But that time has come !!!  The US has been held hostage
>by those barbaric`s in the middle east before.  ANd its time we showed 
>them whose in charge.  How and why are we letting ourselves be held
>hostage by a group of people whose numbers equall no more than a 1000.

I question your statistics.

>I am all for dialogue, but when one of our own gets killed needlessly
>its time to step in.

What you're saying here is that it's alright if someone (anyone) else gets
killed as long as it's not "our own".  So the only solution is to kill someone
else?

>Reagan should ask Isreal for the realease of the Shiite prisoners then 
>blow beruit off the face of the map.  

What good would that do?  Start a war?  Have someone come over here and
retalliate?  How would you like it if they blew up your home-town?

>How can he even trust Berri, when 
>he himself is a Shiite.
>It is my belief that Shiite stands for SHIT!!! {FLAME ON BABY}
>Why is it okay for Russia or an other country to use military force, but
>if the US does we get stepped on by the whole world?
>Damn am I pissed:  I hope when Reagan goes before the country tonight
>he advises the Shiites that the US will not give into Terrorist Threats..
>How do you feel?
>
-- 

Sarah E. Dugan
"One Day At A Time"

###########################################################################
# AT&T Bell Labs IH 1D-408                The Forest (home)               #
# Naperville-Wheaton Rd.                  1353 Crab Apple Court  Apt. 101 #
# Naperville, Illinois  60566             Naperville, Illinois  60540     #
# (312) 979 - 5545                        (312) 355 - 0445                #
###########################################################################