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Subject: Re: Reagan and Qadaffi
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 10:47:25 EST
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> 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,
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