Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!hao!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (S. Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Reagan and Qadaffi Message-ID: <471@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 10:47:25 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.471 Posted: Wed Feb 13 10:47:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 19:03:05 EST References: <1369@dciem.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 24 Xref: utcs net.politics:7366 net.flame:7976 > Martin Taylor > {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt: > According to our newpaper reports of the State of the Union address, > US media hid or ignored Reagan's use of Libyan rhetoric: that the> had a right and duty to aid "freedom fighters" against the nation> wherever they might be fighting. > According to our newspapers, Congress cheered. > Sad, isn't it. No, the President did not make that generalization. Very specifically, the U.S. has a right and a duty to it's citizens and other countries of the world that depend on U.S. security to help overthrow and destroy regimes that threaten said security. I also believe he is suggesting that "the enemy of our enemy is our friend." We all cheer at this. That the media is said to have "hidden" or "ignored" this call is silly: there is no consipiracy of silence; if it wasn't attacked with the usual venom it is probably because for once the media recognized and understood common sense. Generalizing the notion is the usual liberal trick to help confuse those who ought to know better. Sad, isn't it? Scott Plunkett, ..{ihnp4,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett