Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!ames!al From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Terrorist bashing Message-ID: <1178@ames.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 21:29:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.1178 Posted: Thu Oct 3 21:29:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 05:42:03 EDT References: <174@pyuxh.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 28 > Roughly paraphrasing from several discussions: > > >>> How many Shiites were killed in US naval bombardment of Beirut? > >> Not enough. > >This is terrorism, too. Haven't we learned anything? > ----- > > After WW II, we should have learned that letting despots and terrorists > have their way without penalty is not the road to peace. After WWI we learned that arms races lead to war. Apparently we've forgotten that lesson. > > I don't have much sympathy for the Shiite section > of Beirut, either. Military camps run by militias are fair game. > They didn't come to the US and attack us. We went to their land and bombarded them. Makes a difference. > There really is such a thing as the prudent exercise of military power. Yes. The constitution makes a provision for this, by giving Congress the power to declare war. The founding fathers didn't give this power to the executive for the obvious reason that they suspected abuse. I don't think US military force should be used without a declaration of war, that's what I think the constitution says. Every US citizen is required to support the constitution.