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- From: fvalenti@alfred.carleton.ca (Fraser Valentine)
- Subject: Re: Gays in the Military
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174731.9484@cunews.carleton.ca>
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- Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <1k4g4qINNrko@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:47:31 GMT
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- In article <1k4g4qINNrko@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> reidyj@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Jay Reidy) writes:
- >
- >There are some more pressing problems the military has to face in the
- >next several years. The most daunting of these is trying to maintain
- >a war time stance in a peace time environment.
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- As a Canadian, I would submit that one of the things your country has to
- worry about is how to pay for the military-industrial complex. I am not
- conviced that other nations are willing to continue to support the action
- Americans have taken abroad for much longer.
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- >
- >Both we and the Soviet Union have done this for 50 years. The Soviet
- >Union's economy was destroyed because of it, and I submit the only
- >reason our's hasn't been is because we have better credit! After
- >all, when the currency of the entire world is based on the U. S.
- >dollar, ther are a lot of people with vested intersts in keeping us
- >afloat, aren't they?
-
- Currency has not ALWAYS been based on the United Stated dollar and I'm not
- sure it always will be either.
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