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From: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian
Summary: replace "Russian" with "Competitor"
Message-ID: <3237@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 28 Nov 88 17:51:50 GMT
References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <2338@cbnews.ATT.COM>
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In-reply-to: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Note-to-Crunch: pass this along to our friends abroad, if you wish

In article <2338@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
|					 However, I remain unconviced that
| help to someone I don't know in the Soviet Union is in my long term self
| interest or national interest.
| 
| I really do like helping people with technical problems.  But how can
| I be certain that the help I give will not be used against me someday?

Replace the "someone I don't know in the Soviet Union" with "someone I
don't know at {DEC,HP,Intel,Tandem,IBM...}".  Same argument applies.
Don't tell me that economic freedom is any different than political
freedom... there are millions of people right here in the good-old
U.S. of A. that are prisoners of economic circumstances, and living a
life comparable or worse than the average Soviet citizen.  (Heck, even
as a successful small business owner, I'm beginning to wonder about
the American system...)

Maybe I'm an optimist, but someone once told me that you can't hate
anyone you truely know.  I've found lots of evidence for that.  People
that state otherwise must not have tested the waters.

And, how come this is in comp.misc, and not talk.political.whatever?
Oh well.

Actually, I vote for *not* sending them USENET.  The resulting death
of productivity (from time spent reading USENET) at such a crucial
stage in Soviet technological development would be sufficient
motiviation to launch a first strike.  :-) :-) :-)
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