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- From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Potential fallout from lifting the US military ban (was Re: Into the streets!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.074953.5139@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- References: <RHAYDEN.93Jan25141553@hqsun2.oracle.com> <1993Jan26.181703.19147@spdcc.com> <1993Jan26.221051.7439@reed.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 07:49:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.221051.7439@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson
- Minar) writes:
-
- >This is the biggest danger I see right now, that Clinton will back
- >down on this. That would be bad for us. Solution? Make sure he doesn't
- >back down.
-
- Fortunately, it would also be bad for Clinton. If he is as smart as I
- think he is, he knows that he can't afford to lose this one, on
- penalty of being perceived as weak and unreliable. It is too high
- profile; Clinton may regret getting into it, but now he is into it.
- It is even more of a must win proposition for gays and lesbians, of
- course, because of its enormous symbolic meaning. The symbolic
- meaning is what the opposition is about, in fact; as usual the
- arguments are secondary.
-
- --
- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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