From: will@thinkmedia.com (thinkmedia.com)
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 94 13:44:02 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: clarification please
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Woah,

>Events like Waco and the Persian Gulf War, in which an
>authoritarian superpower obliterates a mostly harmless and
>largely defenseless group of people, translate with relative ease
>to the cyberspacial realm.

I remember reading a Scientific American article about two years before
Iraq invaded Kuwait, in which it was made clear Iraq had and were
developing missiles with ranges paralleling only U.S., Russia and China. I
don't think harmless and defenseless quite fits the description. Maybe
wannabe super power would be more accurate.

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