Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet Message-ID: <2728@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:48:34 GMT References: <5048@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 22 From article <5048@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, by miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout): "... The Soviets simply want to prevent that from happening "again; their intention the "run the world" is simply an attempt to prevent the "USA from "running the world." That's as may be. It doesn't affect the logic of the argument that it is in the USA's interest to deny the Soviet Union resources that would help them to carry through that intention, however conceived. The actual value of a network connection as such a resource has been questioned in this discussion, but I suppose it has some value. There are forces in the USA that tend to prevent the USA from carrying out any intention it might have of running the world -- military adventurism is unpopular because citizens get killed and because the costs make a cut in social security more likely, for instance. It is in the interest of the USA to foster any change in the Soviet system that would make such forces felt more in the Soviet Union. That a network connection would have such an effect, indirectly, in the long term, seems to me to be the principle argument on the other side of this issue. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu