Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: BIG guns Message-ID: <853@hao.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 00:26:44 EST Article-I.D.: hao.853 Posted: Sun Feb 19 00:26:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:11:35 EST References: <105@iwlc3.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 19 The whole goddamn THING is bad news. What the hell are *we* doing there? I have yet to hear any rational explanation for that. Ronnie and his supporters all base their arguments on the fact that what we are doing is the best we can do to save face in the current situation. Sound familiar? It does to me. It's the same argument Nixon gave when pulling out of Vietnam. Sure, it makes and made sense at the time. But as Gary Hart recently said, "It underscores the point that we should never have gone in there in the first place". Ronnie is making a pathetic attempt to snatch victory from the rapidly closing jaws of defeat. Let's face it, the Lebaonon situation is another debacle for the US. Why do you think the Isrealis got out when they did? Why not let the US do their dirty work for them? What the hell, most of the rest of our allies do, and our leaders are dumb enough to let them get away with it! GREG -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods