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From: pollack@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: El Salvador: Opinions. - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 22:38:57 EDT
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uicsl!pollack    Sep  5 17:30:00 1983


***   D**n it. How can wars be different, especially wars between a Free
***   Third World country and communist guerilla ?

What the h**l is a "Free Third World country"?  Isn't it just a former
colony dominated by US industry and its local hooligans? Is a Third
World country "free" if it is part of the "free world?" Perhaps a
better name for it would be "non-communist world", because the freedoms
we Americans know are sadly lacking in the so-called "Free Third World
countries," (with or without the justification of communist subversion)
like the Phillipines, Guatemala, Taiwan, Korea, Chile, etc. etc.  The
real reason for a rebellion is unfair treatment of a majority of people
- even in the "Economic Miracle" of Brazil, with a puppet regime
installed in 1964, a fantastic number of people live in cardboard
houses in shantytowns, malnourished but eating carcinogenic vegetables
while American Banks Still make a profit "off of" Brazil by lending at
200% interest while inflation is only 135%!


***   Viewers got a chance to see the pictures in her hands:  innocent men,
***   women and children dying in the streets.  []The enemy is playing the
***   same game all the time. And our side keeps playing our part: the part
***   of the dupe, the permanent dupe, the extreme dupe, the un-convertable
***   dupe.


Happily, there is lots of corroboration for the view that the
Salvadoran government is bad and the rebels are good; Lots of US
citizens come and go, even in the "liberated zones." Our administration
has a problem with this too; its emissaries to Central America keep
coming back "crazy," wanting us to support the rebels..

***   At Vietnam, when those with "intellectual vertex of animal- kind" have
***   caught the nation, their corruption leads by far any corrupted
***   creatures on the Earth's surface. "The poor" are wholy emancipated,
***   becoming "the hungry". The whole country is a prison.

By the time the Communists in Vietnam took over, there was no country
left - we had bombed it into a moon-like landscape. And with the total
absence of aid to a region completely dependant on it, massive hunger
and death were guaranteed - but it could be blamed on the Commies, not
on the US.  By contrast, when the Sandinistas took over in Nicaragua,
we had not bombed them to oblivion, so there is not massive hunger,
even though the US stopped shipments of wheat and cooking oil and
stopped buying their sugar and coffee.

***   Ten years ago, being duped by the Communists, that is only being
***   stupid. But now, with a lesson ready, with a lot of similarities to
***   look at, and still refuse to see the truth, that is both stupid and
***   dishonnest.

Ten years ago, bombing a former French colony who resisted the
imposition of a puppet government, that is only being stupid.  But now,
to continue to support a ruthless regime, and refuse to see the truth
that the puppet style of post-colonial government is responsible for
misery, that is both stupid and dishonest!


***   [The author then adds that he couldn't imagine the day when the U.S.
***   will have to massively receive a new class of refugee: the Salvadorans,
***   if El Salvador falls into the communists]

There already are hundreds of thousands of refugees from Latin America,
mainly from El Salvador and Guatemala whose regimes are following a
"scorched earth" counter-insurgency policy of destroying whole
villages. The US church has had to offer sanctuary to these refugees
because they are not refugees from communism.  But then, tell me, where
are the millions of refugees from Nicaragua?

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Jordan Pollack
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