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!water!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars. Message-ID: <2132@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 13:33:48 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2132 Posted: Fri Jun 28 13:33:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 01:18:35 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> <5731@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 > > 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. > > Tell it to the Afghans. They are most assuredly trying. No luck. > For that matter, tell it to the Poles or the Czechs or the Hungarians. > They tried too. Again not exactly a valid comparison when the are going to have to contend with the US. In fact in a nonnuclear world the US might be a little more vigorous about things like Afghanistan since the risk entailed by interfering might not be so great. > > And incidentally, if they rule the world, why not threaten to simply > obliterate opposition? After they follow through once or twice, things > will quiet down remarkably. If they take over the world then they can take over the world? Probably. It's just the first time through that would be a problem I think. . . > -- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry