Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Never again. How soon we forget.
From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
Date: 15 Aug 92 23:53:40 EST
Organization: Demonic Possesions, Inc.
Summary: Latest News: CIA has been reporting atrocities for months

In article <Bt1ArI.1IC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman) writes:
> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
> 
>>>>	Which US forces would that be?  I'm unaware of any US forces fighting
>>>>for Tito after the war.
> 
>>>Quoting from the NEWSWEEK article (August 17th issue, page 20):
> 
>>>    On the frontier between Italy and Yugoslavia between 1945 and
>>>    1953, dozens of American servicemen were killed, wounded
>>>    or captured when Harry Truman's grunts and airmen [a.k.a. U.S.
>>>    troops] exchanged shots with Tito's guerrillas.
> 
>>Ah, they exchanged pot-shots across the border?
> 
> It is a brief article and the author does not provide more details as
> to the nature of the conflict. Perhaps you could write to him in care
> of NEWSWEEK if you want more details. The point is that there *were*     e
> U.S. forces over there.

	There were US forces *everywhere* after WWII.  Italy was an occupied
country.  Trieste was a US occupation zone.

	There was NO formal combat between the two sides.  This hardly
qualifies as combat experience, or endows the soldiers involved with expert
knowledge about each other.

	Next: Berlin Border Patrol--East German Combat Experts.  "Yes, we shot
many in the back, the were the faster runners ever!"

>>>>> wandering around battlefieds, I've never met fiercer fighters. They
>>>>> could easily suck the United States into a ground war -- hook, line
>>>>> and body bag." writes Hackworth.
> 
>>There is an alarming trend here to evaluate the horror and misery on some
>>sort of Richter-like Scale of Universal Worth - it's not that you don't care
>>about the folks being killed, you just don't think Americans should put
>>themselves at risk for them, right?   That's clear enough, and cuts right to
>>the core of western corruption.
> 
> It's like rushing in to a burning building. Sometimes the level of
> risk is acceptable but other times it is not. It is not that one
> doesn't care, it is just that if the situation is hopeless then it
> is hopeless. 

	The building of Bosnia is hardly equivalent to beyond hope.

	BTW-did you see the front page news about how the CIA (and probably
other intelligence outfits) have been giving Bush daily reports of atrocities?

	Of course, those were mostly Muslim, so the non-action is to be
expected.

...
>>Sorry, Jack, no banana. I don't get my news from Yankee TV, although it
>>would not matter if I did - folks _are_ dying over there, whether you
>>believe it or not. We are not powerless, just lacking the moral fibre
>>required to put a stop to the barbarity.
> 
> I am a bit puzzled as to your claim that you are an ex-Marine and your
> later statement that "I don't get my news from Yankee TV." Could you
> please clarify this?

	He lives in Canada.

Brett                                                      
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