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From: mwe@astrovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Grenada
Message-ID: <99@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 17:07:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 17:07:01 1983
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The USA gave the cold shoulder to Bishop because we didn't like his
politics. The "powers that be" are much more interested in exploitable
markets/resources than in democracy, so a democratic but leftist 
government does them no good. I support the invasion of Grenada (tentatively)
on the facts now available about the military situation, but I deplore the
policy of forcing any leftist government into the Cuban/Soviet camp that
brought the situation about in the first place. If WE had offered to build
the airfield, instead of pretending Bishop wasn't a legitimate head of state,
we would have saved alot of lives, and most probably alot of money too.
(I haven't seen the pricetag for the operation yet)
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