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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!andyw
- From: andyw@meaddata.com (Andy Welter)
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
- Subject: Re: Somalia/Buying back guns
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:07:18 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- In article 1h5vnrINN9f2@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU, yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) writes:
- >>I don't think we should remove all arms by force. This risks shifting
- >>Somali public opinion against us. What may happen is an offer of
- >>food/money for guns. We'll have to see.
- >
- >Money for guns? Hahaha. They will sell you only their old and useless guns.
- >Just look at what happened to various money-for-guns programs in the US.
- >And the Somalians need their guns a lot more than US citizens do.
- >
- >Food for guns? The people with guns have not had a problem getting food.
- >
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you give a man a gun
- and teach him how to steal fish from others, you feed him for life!
- :-)
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