Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Kidnaping Shiites Message-ID: <1340234@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 19:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340234 Posted: Thu Jun 27 19:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:24:10 EDT References: <2088@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 9 >/* 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.