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In article <1992Dec21.075152.13537@netcom.com>, 
strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight...
> Jyrki (apt name) posts another anti-U.S. screed in which he says that
> I must have been referring to violence done by the U.S. government
> when I talk about lives lost or saved by cryptography during the war.
> 
> I was not. I was talking about lives lost at Pearl Harbor, lives
> saved at Midway, and lives saved by Enigma and Purple decrypts, 

!!!!

German submariners and Japanese sailors may have a different point of view 
here...esp. in terms of 'lives saved' at Midway etc.   [Please note that
I'm an American as well...but death is death and cipher/codebreaking in war
often _causes_ it.  It's nice when it's the enemy's and not yours, but 
it's still death.]  And we did (rightly, I affirm) cause it to happen. So 
where is he wrong?  

My point is that you don't have to be anti-American to state that 
superior--often American--technology in war is a killer.  [Hell, 
ask Lee/Longstreet.  They'll tell you.]

John Garland
jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.