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From: wall@ucbvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Nicaragua vs Greneda
Message-ID: <36@ucbvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 06:30:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 06:30:14 1983
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Come on now folks. Let's at least get the players right in Central
America. I believe the contemporary saying is "El Salvador: Another
Vietnam", *NOT* "Nicaragua: Another Vietnam".

El Salvador could very well turn in to another Vietnam because it is
clear that there is no way of achieving a quick military solution to
the problems down there, but I hate the saying "El Salvador: Another
Vietnam" because I think that too many people were against the Vietnam
war because *AMERICANS* were getting killed (53,000 to be exact), but
these people don't have the same sympathy for the thousands of *VIETNAMESE*
that were killed. I'm afraid that the same thing may happen in El
Salvador (people not really caring until joe amererican is the one
being killed), which is a real shame.

Come on folks, the death of an American is no more horrible than
the death of an El Salvadoran/Vietnamese/Grenadian/??.** I think
our *real* goal is to see that no one life should be valued more
than another so that we can all live together and try to work our
problems out peacefully.


Steve Wall
wall@ucbvax
ucbvax!wall


** I realize that I may have to suffer the consequences for this statement.