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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: American Hostages
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 10:31:06 EDT
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> > 
> > What difference does it make who the captors are?  Americans have no business
> > purposely traveling to a war zone.  I consider those American as combatants.
> > Andif they are hurt or killed, that is their fault as a result of their
> > arrogance.
> >  
> 
> Does this also hold true for US citizens
> (nee ``Americans'') ``purposely traveling'' to Lebanon?
> Did the US Marines there get their just deserts?  Do medical personel going
> into a combat zone deserve death because of their ``arrogance''?  Think
> about what you are saying, man.  My guess is that you're yet another
> Amurcan using double standards based on who your government says are the
> good guys and the bad.
> 
I said anybody going into a combat zone can be considered a combatant, even
doctors.  Remember the hostages?  They were hijacked from Greece and taken to
a war zone.  They did not travel there of their own free will.  
Who said anything about anyone deserving death because they were in a combat
zone?  You did that's who.  I'm simply making a comparison between innocent
hostages in a war zone and those who of their own free will put themselves in
danger by traveling to a war zone.  
If you can, try to remain calm, cool, and collected and READ my message and
not jump to the outer limits and distort its context.
One last thought.  A doctor usually would be in a war zone to patch up the
combatants.  I would certainly not call this heroic measure arrogance like you
did.  Arrogance is carrying a sign down main street in Iran saying down with
Islam.  I would also call this action stupid not a heroic measure.