From: AIESEC - Ohio State <aiesecrs@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: The World Bully
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:39:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.020943.25349@muddcs.claremont.edu> you write:
>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 ????!!!!!!
>

Talk to the U.S. about Viet Nam.  I think it can be.

>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...
>

The U.S. got less then 3% of Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil before the war.   Why don't 
you ask Eastern Europe about the importance of cheap energy?  The U.S. could go
nuclear tomorrow if it was forced to.

>And now the UN blockade is causing millions of Iraqi civilians - who
>have no say in what their government does - to suffer and die.

The U.S. is under a 15 year old Presidential order that strictly forbids
assasinating foriegn leaders in a covert operation.  How else to get rid of 
Hussein?  Or maybe you secretly like him, your fantasy is that he is standing 
up to a U.S./U.N. bully.

>  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.
>

The bomb is a terrible weapon, as the citizens of Japan can attest.  It's not 
going to simpley dissapear, but that does not mean we should let it spread.  In
a bizarre way, Iraqi citizens are already dying because of the bomb, or at 
least one man's lust for power:  Saddam Hussein.

>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 !

Oh yes, what well thought out statements and conclusions.
You didn't even sign a name.  Who's the coward?

Ryan C. Scharfy
The Ohio State University
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