Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxss!sebb From: sebb@pyuxss.UUCP (S Badian) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: BIG guns Message-ID: <279@pyuxss.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 09:12:01 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxss.279 Posted: Thu Feb 16 09:12:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:21:53 EST References: <105@iwlc3.UUCP> <853@hao.UUCP>, <635@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 A lot of us would like to believe that the Reagan admin- istration knows why it still has Marines in Lebanon and why our guns are pounding Beirut. Unfortunately, it just ain't so. Just yesterday I heard that the administration was not in agreement about why we(our guns) are firing on Beirut. Some people (and I'm very sorry; their names have slipped from my feeble little mind) say we are doing it to restore order and bring peace to Lebanon(to which I say "Fat Chance"). Others (I believe the Pres was in this group but don't quote me on that) say we're bombing Beirut to protect our Marines. So why are our Marines still there? If you pulled them all out to off-shore postitions until the air cleared, you wouldn't have to bomb the hell out of that poor city. Its residents are doing a good enough job without us. I just feel very sorry for all the poor people in Beirut who are caught in the cross-fire, if there are any left. So flame all you want about the motives of the Pres and Company for fighting in Lebanon, and I bet none of you will get it right. They probably haven't made up their minds yet, and they probably never will. Sharon Badian