Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Reagan's Remark Message-ID: <164@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 20:15:24 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxl.164 Posted: Sun Aug 19 20:15:24 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:12:28 EDT References: <925@houxz.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 31 Reagan's remark about bombing the Russians in five minutes was to force them to the bargaining table?!!! Come now! I have heard of some farfetched explanations for stupid and dangerous blunders but this is stretching the imagination! Ronald Reagan does NOT want any arms treaties with the Russians--he has never supported an arms control treaty negotiated by ANY president, not even those negotiated by Nixon and Ford. Indeed in a speech in May 1981 Ronald Reagan forecast very well the future of his nuclear policy: "The argument, if there is any, will be over which weapons, not whether we should forsake weaponry for treaties and agreements." And so coupled with the greatest arms buildup in the world's history we have the first president in 20 years who has not concluded a single arms control treaty with the Soviets. Instead Reagan's Administration has already announced plans to break SALT II in 1985 with the deployment of an additional Trident submarine--treaties are being broken or left behind in the scramble for every conceivable weapon. Thus there is not even an argument in the Reagan Administrations mind about which weapons will be supported--they will ALL be supported. I do not think that traditional Democratic nostrums of more gov't funds will solve every problem and so Mondale is not my favorite candidate. But Ronald Reagan for four more years without facing re-election scares me to death. This man is dangerous! Tim Sevener whuxl!orb Bell Labs, Whippany