Word: chokes
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...President explained to the media Tuesday that there were 16 choke points--vital straits and canals through which supplies and raw materials are shipped to the West--that the Soviets would try to close...
According to our strategically minded President, U.S. military bases in the Philippines are vital to protect the choke points in Indonesia...
...usual, the President has not let the facts interfere with his policy. The Pentagon said Wednesday, according to The New York Times, that the Soviets "would not place a high priority on attacking many of the choke points cited by Mr. Reagan." Other experts said the Soviets were actually more vulnerable to the closing of the points than the West...
...example, one of the choke points is the straits of Skagerrak, adjacent to Germany. What if the Nazis today controlled such a choke point? Would we then condone their mass murder in the face of the Soviet threat...
Such distinctions are not only ridiculous but unworkable. Either you support murderers, or you don't. If you decide military bases and choke points are more important than human life, if you decide that preparation for war is more important than preserving democracy, there is no going back...