Re: non military license for ada

[Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>]

In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> transmitted:
> Tony Gair wrote:
>> Dog, junkyard and maniacal says a lot.
> The president has taken an oath to serve and protect
> this country, and he must do that as he best sees fit.
>
> A war against Iraq will cause countries to think twice
> before funneling support to groups which attack American
> interests, because they will know that they cannot delay
> retribution by miring it with the niceties of endless
> United Nations discussion.

There seems a fair chance that this will have a pretty destructive
effect on the credibility of the UN, which, to some, is a good thing,
and to others, not so good...

> There are ample reasons to believe that much of the
> opposition to the war by other governments has more
> to do with trying to restrain American power than with
> pacifistic principles.

It's rather interesting that the main recent markets for Iraqi oil,
and the main recent suppliers of weapons to Iraq, happen to be the
very same countries opposing UN intervention.
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