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- From: detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David De Trolio)
- Newsgroups: alt.desert-storm
- Subject: Re: no-flyzone
- Message-ID: <Jan.27.17.29.23.1993.17719@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:29:31 GMT
- References: <amartin-270193140413@lib102b-565556.lib.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- amartin@ucs.indiana.edu (amartin) writes:
-
- >This is in response to the no fly zone....
-
- It is also a protective zone.
-
- >What right does a country, or an organization, have to partition another
- >country
- >up & then tell its leaders they can not operate in that part of the
- >country.
-
- The leadership of the country in question here has maintained a policy of
- killing certain ethnic groups within its borders. It then attacked another
- nation without cause or need, and committed similar acts on its population.
-
- Outside of occupying Iraq, which would be neither practical or tolerable,
- there is no other means at this time to protect the Kurds in Northern Iraq
- and factions in Southern Iraq and the Kuwati border but by imposing a no-
- fly zone.
-
- >It is their bloody country; not the UN's; not the US's. It's time that the
- > arab peoples gained full control of their own land back.
-
- If they can assure the UN they will adhere to the UN Resoultions and the
- terms of the ceasefire, the overfly by Allied forces can be reduced and
- then eliminated. As long as there is a threat by Iraq and its military,
- the flights will stay. I also feel it is safe to say a lot of the Arab
- world is not happy about Allied jets flying over Iraq, but would not like
- to see Iraqi jets flying over THEIR country.
-
- > I don't condone the acts of Sadam Hussain but I can not support telling
- >another leader that he is not free to operate in his own country.
-
- It is not a position the UN and US takes lightly, but the situation and
- conditions warrant it.
-
- >The US has too long of a history medeling in other countries affairs..
-
- This is the feeling of many, I do not share or agree with it, and it is
- important to note the number of occasions the US has stepped in to assist
- countries in time of need and crisis regardless of who or where they were.
-
-
-
- --
- David De Trolio (detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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