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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
- Message-ID: <bob1.725046172@cos>
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- References: <1992Dec19.232619.6118@nntp.hut.fi> <BzM9Eo.Jvt@unix.amherst.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:42:52 GMT
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- In <BzM9Eo.Jvt@unix.amherst.edu> pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu (PAUL D CHAPIN) writes:
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- >Jyrki Kuoppala (jkp@cs.HUT.FI) wrote:
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- >: I hear reports of the U.S. military going to Somalia, then declaring a
- >:
- Must have been a slow news day in the Finn press :-). Don't you folks
- in the rest of the world have jobs or something to do? Bashing the U.S.
- seems to be the only pastime you have. Sounds like an aquaintance in
- Switzerland who told my wife he knew all about us because he read Time
- magazine.
-
- >I just realized where you got this item. The UN Secretary General wants the
- >US to do this. He also wants us the disarm the clans, train a new Somali
- >police/military and help establish a new government. We turned him down
- >flat. We're there to help food get through and stop the random looting
- >and killing of civilians. As soon as that's done or somebody comes forward
- >to take our place, we're out of there. Bush is talking two to three months.
- >I suspect closer to six, since I expect it will be a long time before the
- >Europo-wimps send enough people to make a difference. (1500 from Germany.
- >Give me a break. There are football games that require more security than
- >that. 30,000 are security. 3,000 are targets).
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