Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Beirut solutions Message-ID: <1340245@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:36:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340245 Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:36:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:35:42 EDT References: <186@SCIRTP.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 25 >/* 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