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From: don@umd5.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 12:47:38 EDT
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In article <183@ihlpl.UUCP> zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes:
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>Any violent overt action at this point might have three possible outcomes:
>
>	2) The loss of esteem (face if you will) of the US through
>		reason of having to stoop to the level of the violent 
>		to achieve a solution to the situation.

(From an editorial in the Washington Post, written by Alexander Haig,Jr.
 on this subject.)
  
"...Second comes the moral fallacy that somehow counterterrorist action,
 which may risk innocent lives, 'dirties' our hands. This fallacy condemns
 us to paralysis and puts the terrorist and his victims - and the United
 States is a victim - on the same moral plane.
    The use of force may miscarry. Military operations do go awry. But the
 alternative to risking a few precious lives today may be to risk many more
 no less precious lives tomorrow, as terrorists and the governments that
 support them become convinced that we lack the moral strength to defend our
 values...
 ...We must deter terrorism by lowering the rewards and raising the penalties
    for those who encourage it..." 

No flames, please. I just felt that I should bring this article to your
attention in order to enhance the current discussion.


  
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