Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don From: don@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.social,net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: To Hell With Diplomacy Message-ID: <625@umd5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 12:47:38 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.625 Posted: Mon Jul 1 12:47:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 03:50:26 EDT References: <686@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <171@nvuxb.UUCP> <3185@garfield.UUCP> <183@ihlpl.UUCP> Reply-To: don@umd5.UUCP (Don Preuss) Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 39 Xref: watmath net.politics:9732 net.social:782 net.women:6230 net.flame:10977 In article <183@ihlpl.UUCP> zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes: > >Any violent overt action at this point might have three possible outcomes: > > 2) The loss of esteem (face if you will) of the US through > reason of having to stoop to the level of the violent > to achieve a solution to the situation. (From an editorial in the Washington Post, written by Alexander Haig,Jr. on this subject.) "...Second comes the moral fallacy that somehow counterterrorist action, which may risk innocent lives, 'dirties' our hands. This fallacy condemns us to paralysis and puts the terrorist and his victims - and the United States is a victim - on the same moral plane. The use of force may miscarry. Military operations do go awry. But the alternative to risking a few precious lives today may be to risk many more no less precious lives tomorrow, as terrorists and the governments that support them become convinced that we lack the moral strength to defend our values... ...We must deter terrorism by lowering the rewards and raising the penalties for those who encourage it..." No flames, please. I just felt that I should bring this article to your attention in order to enhance the current discussion. -- --==---==---==-- ___________ _____ ---- _____ \ //---- IDIC ----- _\______//_ ---- ---------- ARPA: don@umd5.ARPA BITNET: don%umd5@umd2 SPOKEN: Chris Sylvain UUCP: {seismo,rlgvax,allegra,brl-bmd,nrl-css}!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!don