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Hi, Michael:
It seems to me that keeping the bad guys out is preferable to trying
to throw them out after they are in. And if you have some sort of
existing force to resist an invasion, it might make the bad guys
think twice about trying to come in.
Henry Carmichael
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Remember the Prague spring 1968, when Czechoslovakia tried "socialism with a
human face", and in August, the Warsaw Pact countries, led by the USSR, came in
with tanks and reestablished order, meaning hard-line Communism? Maybe the USSR
would have thought twice if the people of Czechoslovakia were better equipped to
blow up those tanks? Or would the Warsaw Pact countries have bombed
Czechoslovakia to rubble as Russia did more recently in Chechnya?
Who knows what might happen with Russia in the future, especially if the market
economy runs into trouble? What if somebody like Vladimir Zhirinovsky comes
into power?
