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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Beirut solutions
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:36:00 1985
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>/* todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) /  6:35 pm  Jun 26, 1985 */

>Military strength will no longer give us an image of respectibility.
>A humanitarian foreign policy will.

The reason we need military strength is not for image respectability, but
for safety.  Who gives a damn about image respectability?  Image in whose
eyes?  Don't forget that the majority of the world's governments are controlled
by people with no scruples.  Besides, the important thing is to be
respectable (so that we CAN respect ourselves), not to look respectable.

If what you mean is by "humanitarian foreign policy" is to treat peoples
around the world with a common respect due all human beings who don't
destroy this respect, I agree.  But if waht you mean is that we should
give more foreign aid, then you need to present theoretical reasons
and empirical evidence that this policy makes sense, since the both
theory and history go against it.

>Let's stop leeching resources from our global neighbors and start caring.

Who's leeching?  EVIDENCE?

>   [ O-O ]       Todd Jones

						Mike Sykora