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From: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Responding to Terrorism
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 09:36:58 EDT
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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 !