Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:11:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: JALAO <lcj11-AT-csufresno.edu>
Subject: Re: .... Here we go




On Fri, 22 May 1998, David Skreiner wrote:
> 
> > >        []  Why India should not make nuclear weapons.
> > >        I firmly belive that India should not make nuclear weapons and I
> > >        present following arguments for the same:
> > >
> > >        1)  India has no right to protect itself.
> 
> I agree that the US policy of seeing themselves as the Cop-of-the-Planet can
> be rather annoying, and has wreaked havoc on many countries (not only in
> a military context). But still, the US is somewhat more stable than most Asian
> governments... and unless Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" really
> was a prophetic work, the US will remain annoyingly boisterous and conservative
> in their world politics, but at least not actively dangerous. Can you say the
> same for India? What about in 15 years?
> 

True, the U.S. is more stable than India, but that has a lot to do with
the fact that the U.S. also has the highest percentage of its population
in jail.  Talk about stability!

The second e-mail of this series was mine, and since then I've noticed a
lot of good stuffs being discussed; however, there is one thing I noticed
about the reactions to my e-mail:  people missed my sarcastic comment at
the end regarding "intelligence failure."  I'm saying this because it
seems that the above message, the one with a list of propositions, had a
pretty good sense of humor too, which was passed over.  I personally don't
think that nuclear armament has any valid claim to existence.  I am
totally for disarmament.  But, skeptically, what are the chances for
nuclear disarmament if it is tackled with a belief that is not
all-inclusive?  This said, I recognize the fact that the U.S. has no
desire to disarm, destroy their nukes, so this is not even an issue.

They should make a new font:  Sarcastic 12-point bold.

Ly C. T. Jalao
CSU, Fresno



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