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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
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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