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In article <1991Jan28.164745.18240@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
>In article <1477@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> p515dfi@mpirbn.UUCP (Daniel Fischer) writes:
>>This is the first time I have heard comments calling for an end of the Gulf
>>War.
>>here in Germany's mainstream media (most newspaper commentators today are not
>>yet that bold, but they'll learn, too...). The spell of Schwarzkopf's 'Video
>>Game' delusion is broken!
>>
>>           Time's running out  -  STOP THE WAR  -  CEASE-FIRE NOW !
>
>     This is no video game, this is deadly serious, and all of our
>     military and policy makers know it.  Strangely enough, it seems
>     that many of the anti-war demonstrators do not think that
>     the whole situation is very serious.

It may be that this is no Video-Game, but many, many people in this world
are looking at this war as if it is one. Not because they are stupid, but 
because it is presented to them as such in the media. It doesn't matter if
the military and the policy makers know that, because they are not supposed 
to be ruling the country in a democracy. 
 In fact anti-war demonstrators are against war because they DO realise
                                                             ^^
that war is extremely serious.
            ^^^^^^^^^
>
>     Also, it is pretty easy to be anti-war when you have been protected for
>     the last 45 years and do not have to shoulder any responsibility
>     for this action since the good old Americans and British are
>     ponying up once again.  Germany has dissapointed me very much
>     by even trying to whine out of their NATO commitment to Turkey.
>     It seems that treaty obligations mean to Germany only gimmee, 
>     gimmee, gimmee.

 It's also pretty simple to be anti-war if you know what a real war is
like.

>     Coalition forces are involved in an anti-war effort.  Fortunately,
>     some can see that sometimes in order to defend the peace, you must
>     wage war.

Unfortunately some cannot see that there are far more ways to resolve 
a conflict peacefully than militarily. Another thing some cannot see 
is that war is such a horrible thing, it should only be waged when there 
is absolutely (and I don't mean absolutely in the way that Bush uses it,
e.g. read me lips...) no other option left. I don't think that was the 
case, do you ?

Michael.
-- 
Michael McCarthy.

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