From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Bush for (Ex)President in '92!
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:39:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: igor.1992Apr8.193928.22238
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco

In article <ku3pk9INN4cs@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM
(Tricky Gnosis) writes:
>Why not?  Because politically unstable pissant nations run by tinpot
>dicators can hardly be counted on to be responsible and exercise restraint.

Question:  Do you REALLY feel that Reagan and Bush have been paragons of
restraint???  Look at the past 12 years.  Grenada was basically an
instance where Reagan decided to make an example of a miniscule South
American country.  Reagan had a hardon for Qaddafi and used the bombing
of that West German disco as a pretext for bombing Tripoli, despite the fact
that the Syrians (I think) really did it.  Noriega and Hussein were
hunky-dory in Bush's book, until they refused to roll over on command;
then, in a manner reminscent of the Drug War hysteria, America was suddenly
convinced that those two thugs were dangers to our way of life

IMO, if people learned to think critically, rather than swallow whole
any rancid pap generated by the "spin masters" in Washington, we'd be a
whole lot better off as a nation.


>But that's not to say that nuclear weapons would serve the same purpose in
>the hands of a nation like Iraq or Iran or Libya, nations with priorities 
>that don't necessarily coincide with those of the West or the East. 

The BASTARDS!  How dare they not align themselves with our priorities?! :v)


>Peeve:  Those who reflexively say that Thatcher and Raygun were wrong, 
>	without bothering to step back and look at the Big Picture (tm).

The big picture is still sorting itself out at this time, moving in and
out of focus; thus, it's about as easy to hold on to as a fistful of sand.
If you're talking about the Cold War as the big picture, I'm afraid that
even that conclusion is up for grabs.

Sure, we're not standing toe-to-toe with the former Soviet Union
anymore but look at all the awful things that the US did, in its fits
of anti-Communist frenzy.  How many people died through torture in
Chile, after a US-backed coup replaced Allende with the butcher Pinochet?
How many people died in Nicaragua, as a result of US-sponsored terrorist
activities?

IMO, the world will have become a sane place when international applies
EQUALLY all around:  when the extradition of CIA terrorists to Nicaragua
is as certain as the extradition of Libyan terrorists to the US.

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Look, I'm not a Communist OR a pacifist.  There's a time to fight and a
time for peace.  I just think it's damned dangerous to take the word of
the kind of thug we've had in office for the past 12 years, regarding
what time it is.

You don't see JiZ running around filleting with his sword anyone who looks
at him funny (as many do), do you? :v)

   donB
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