Danger of an Arms Race (fwd)
Trond Andresen
t.andresen at uws.edu.au
Mon May 18 06:35:40 PDT 1998
>One of the big missiles was called "peacekeeper". The terrorist gangs
>organized by the U.S in Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola, and Mozambique were
>called "freedom fighters". Reagan's Star Wars progarm was called "Strategic
>Defense Initiative".
When you accidentally kill your own troops during war the term is that it
happened due to "friendly fire". I remember it was used during the Gulf war.
Trond Andresen
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