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In article <1991Feb11.074144.17636@eua.ericsson.se> olof@erix.ericsson.se (John-Olof Bauner) writes:
>In article <1842@netmbx.UUCP> sanio@netmbx.UUCP (Erhard Sanio) writes:
>
>It might be the case that Maggie was the spiritus rector. She is/was a very
>outspoken/outstanding lady. What I didn't like in your letter was the 
>Cassandra tone. Everything is the fault of the U.S. (and the UK). And yes,
>Genscher he favoured another approach. But, if the German industry trade like
>hell with SA (or Iraq), and you do nothing to implement what you favour,
>you cannot claim higher moral standards. And some prime ministers of German
>states, like late FJ Strauss, did everything they could to fraternize with SA
>to help, in this case the Bavarian, industry.
>
well jo, guess you got me completely wrong. My intention was never to defend
the German government against the absolutely justified complaints about 
their collaboration with South Africa - together with others or alone. Same
applies to their relations with Iraq and e.g. Zaire (btw a coalition member)
the dictator of which is really crazy (ordering his name to be mentioned in
prayers before that of god and jesus) or Indonesia, whose dictator Suharto
started his carreer by slaughtering 1.5 mio ppl estimated and whose aggression
and annexion (backed by the whole West) costed more lives than Kuwait has
nationals in East Timor. And so on and so on. Same with German industry. 
My complaint was about those now declaring a "just war" and hypocritically
blaming Germany for things they did as well (sometimes worse) only because
German gvt - reflecting feelings in the populus - reacts with some more
distance.
>Regards, jo

regards, es