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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Corcoran)
Wed Sep 14 15:37:36 1994
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 15:30:51 EDT
From: tjic@ICD.teradyne.com (Travis Corcoran)
To: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca
Cc: damartin@ampere.mit.edu, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9409141925.AA03500@duke.cs.mcgill.ca> (theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca)
Reply-To: Travis J.I. Corcoran <tjic@ICD.teradyne.com>
> From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 15:25:26 -0400
>
> | One option (of dubious practicality, but worth discussing for
> | entertainment's sake, if nothing else ) is to allow the formation of
> | non-government controlled (but perhaps....perhaps...government
> | regulated ) expeditionary bodies. Volunteers from the US, Haiti,
> | Mexico, Germany, etc. could join a one-shot "Haiti Liberation Army".
> | This would be cross between the French Foreign Legion and the foreign
> | volunteerism often seen in regular wars (Canadians joining the US Army
> | during Vietnam, Americans flying fighters for England in the early
> | days of WWII).
>
> Of course, right now it is against US law to take foreign policy into your
> hands, so such a force would need government permission. And right now our
> government doesn't even want to give weapons to Bosnians who are laying
> their *own* lives on the line.
>
> BTW, has anyone else noticed that the Clinton policy of preventing the
> Bosnians from having the means to defend themselves is similar to their
> desired policy of preventing American individuals from having the means
> to defend themselves?
I was thinking the same thing during the Somali operations. The Army
was bragging that it was confiscating weapons.
What they didn't point out was that the only people handing in weapons
were the meek and the law-abiding. The predators, the outlaws, the
warlords, etc. were not.
Sounds like a great recipe for carnage.
TJIC
