On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Reeza! wrote: :Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 06:11:38 +1000 :From: Reeza! <howree@cable.navy.mil> :To: Missouri FreeNet Administration <measl@mfn.org> :Cc: Jukka E Isosaari <jei@zor.hut.fi>, Joel O'Connor <ogrenivek@yahoo.com>, : mib <mib@io.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com :Subject: Re: I must admit. . . : :At 02:29 PM 12/22/98 -0600, Missouri FreeNet Administration wrote: :> :>On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Reeza! blathered thusly: : :Cute. : :>Hrmm... And we have never "sanctioned" (gotta love those innocuous :>euphemisms) any soveriegn State? What good for the goose is not good for :>the gander? I repeat, *what gives us the RIGHT* to determine his weaponry :>or lack thereof? : :Perhaps if you cited a few examples, your counter-point would have some :weight. How about Iraq itself??? :>:Your arguments would be better applied to Somalia and Bosnia than they are :>:to Iraq. Our presence in those countries was of a slightly different :>:character than it is in Iraq now isn't it??? :>Yes indeed. In these two countries we were there only to watch over the :>slaughter, not to perpetuate it ourselves. Mustv'e ruined your Military :>Day (tm), huh Reeza? : :(yawn) not really. Actually, any involvement we have with the UN gets on my :nerves. Interesting, the way you ignore the differences between "internal :conflict" and "aggression against a sovereign neighbor". I don't see any difference when *we* are the ones injecting ourselves into it. Why don't you point them out to me? Yours, J.A. Terranson A *thinking* citizen of the United States Of America - damn few of us left...