From: HADCDJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A)
Subject: Re: The World Bully
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 21:04:07 GMT
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In <1992Apr14.020943.25349@muddcs.claremont.edu> rwyatt@niji.claremont.edu writes:

> I must first admit to not having read ANY articles on desert storm in  
> this news group...
> 
> George Bush and the UN countries he so readily intimidates are  
> nothing more then cowards and murderers.  No, I am not a flaming  
> liberal - just someone with (I think) a decent head on his shoulders.  
> 
> How difficult is it to OPPRESS a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ????!!!!!!
  It can be bloody difficult.  Look at Vietnam.
> 
> Sure, we had to liberate Kuwait...Isn't it funny that the Kuwaiti  
> government embodies everything the US is "against" ?  No freedoms,  
> oppression, etc...But, we have to rush to the rescue.  For what  
> reason ?  It is simple !  Money !  Money !  Money !  The US  
> government chose to look the other way when Chinese students were  
> massacred.  We have done NOTHING to even MEDIATE the war in  
> Yugoslavia.  Why ?  What do those countries (or factions) have to  
> offer ?  Not much...  Kuwait, on the other hand, has oil.  And we all  
> know - oil is money.  So instead of being the "self appointed  
> policeman" of the world, the US has stooped to becoming the World  
> Bully.  I just can't help but thinking about that mean upperclassman  
> who takes the little kid's lunch money...

  I agree we should have done more about China.  But invading would have been
suicidal, or nearly so.  We rushed to help Kuwait becuase it has oil.  Damn
right.  We need it, more's the pity, to run our economy.  don't like it? Build
some nuke plants.

> 
> And now the UN blockade is causing millions of Iraqi civilians - who  
> have no say in what their government does - to suffer and die.  No  
> clean water, no electricity, no medicine, no food.  But, we have to  
> make sure that Saddam doesn't have the bomb - so that the Balance of  
> Power can remain in our favor.  The US deserves to have nuclear  
> weapons, because we are responsible...  The Iraqi's are not...  This  
> may be true, but who are we to determine who deserves what.  Yet, we  
> continue to aid (although not as much any more) Israel with weapons  
> and bombs so that they can kill Palestinians.

No I don't want the Iraqi's to have nukes.  I honestly wish we were the only
ones who did have them.  Judgement has nothing to do with it.
Besides SOMEBODY has to make these determinations, whether they are qualified
or not.  Otherwise we may as well, give up on society as a whole.

> 
> Let's face it - the US is a cowardly country, hell-bent on world  
> domination.  Anyone that supports US military policy ought to take a  
> very close look at what he/she is really supporting.  And if, after  
> careful analysis, you still support the military, label yourself a  
> cowardly murderer.  You are nothing more !

  World domination?  Grow up.  I'm sure the guys in DC would love it the world
jumped when we said frog, but i doubt they want to rule over it.  The place is a
mess.  Would you want the responsibility for cleaning up all the world's
problems?  I doubt it.
  Be careful how you define military and military policy.  I'm a big supporter
of the military -- guys whose job it is to be shot at to protect me etc., etc.
You may freely disagree with the orders the government gives them, but the 
leave the troopers alone.

I note a LOT of follow-ups to this but I'm in a hurry, so please pardon me if I
have inadvertently repeated someone's opinions/facts.

Well,hell, Mr. Wyatt, welcome to the real world!  The US is out for its own best
interests -- just like everybody else.

Jim Miller
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