Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site aurora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!ames!aurora!al From: al@aurora.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.social,net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy Message-ID: <373@aurora.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 23:16:15 EDT Article-I.D.: aurora.373 Posted: Tue Jul 2 23:16:15 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:48:21 EDT References: <686@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <171@nvuxb.UUCP> <796@teddy.UUCP> Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.politics:9758 net.social:789 net.women:6250 net.flame:10994 > >I know its hard to be a democratic society and refrain from military > >intervention. But that time has come !!! Correct me if I am wrong, but a year or two back I distinctly remember news reports about U.S. naval vessels blasting Lebanese villages with high explosives. I think it was a battleship and a few destroyers. I can also remember TV pictures of Lebanese homes reduced to rubble. I don't remember the casualty figures, but given the general inaccuracy of unspotted naval gunfire they were probably quite large, and very likely civilian. Shelling people is an act of war. Shortly after we started pounding the people of Lebenon the marines were attacked, later the embassy was attacked, and most recently the TWA jet hijacked and a **US NAVY** man killed. I can't help but think that if we hadn't shelled the Lebanese they wouldn't have fought back. I can assure you that if the Lebanese navy shelled the Virginia hills I would be proud of any American that drove a truck loaded with explosivess into a Lebanese military compound or highjacked a Lebanese jet and killed a Lebanese navy man. We attacked them and now complain when they fight back the only way they can. I say we stop killing people without a congressional declaration of war as required by the Constitution.