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- From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
- Subject: Re: Survival of the fittest...
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:10:11 -0500
- Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
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- goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Alexander S. Goykhman) writes:
- > Why are you so sure the Somalis want us to rebuild their infrastructure?
- > Yesterday, CNN ran a story on this subject: it turns out that Somalis
- > spent the last couple of years annihilating whatever infrastructure
- > British, Soviets, and American had left behind. For example, they
- > ripped electrical wires off the poles, undug water pipes, took apart
- > the phone system and dismantled their factories. Apparently, the Somalis
- > do not want no Western-style infrastructure in their country.
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- It wasn't just looting?
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- > As every other people on this planet, Somalis want to preserve their
- > way of life, and just because we think that ours is a superior one
- > does not give us a right to shove it down other people's throats.
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- More likely they want the benefits of civilization but are not ready to bear
- its burdens. Or are you really going to argue that they want to die of all
- sorts of diseases we know how to cure?
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- Norman Yarvin yarvin@cs.yale.edu
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