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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