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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 14:57:29 EDT
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>  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.

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.

> It [the US] was a succesful revolution though, wasn't it?

Barely.  And only because England had bigger worries at the time, and the
US was far from home and not all that valuable.	 And it's worth remembering
that a significant fraction of the total population then packed its bags
and moved to Canada; their reaction might have been stronger without a
place to go.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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