Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars. Message-ID: <5731@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 14:57:29 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5731 Posted: Tue Jun 25 14:57:29 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 14:57:29 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 22 > 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry