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From: phil@unisoft.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RE: Regan flame & a**holes
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 13:58:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 13:58:01 1984
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>> From: barbuto@idis.UUCP (indstd anthony barbuto)
>> 
>> AS for Regan... For the past 100 years we have intervened in the politics of
>> Central America for our own entirely economic reasons. Always to benefit the
>> US and the large US multinationals.  We have maintained dictatorships and
>> such through military presence and have thus hindered the natural process of
>> political as well as social development.  I know this because I have a
>> graduate and undergraduate concentration in Latin American Studies.  It is
>> an area of interest and I feel that I am  an "expert" compared to the common
>> educated US citizen.  I do not necessarily advocate socialism nor communism.

``Expert''??? Because you studied it in school?? Oh, well, ignorance is bliss.
If you want to pass yourself off as an expert in Latin American politics,
live there for 10 years, and participate in the political process. Then come
back and tell me about it.

>> In fact I believe in the capitalist system.  However we have NO right to
>> impose our views and politics on others.  (ever hear of human rights??)

Gosh. I'd guess we'd better apologize and make amends to Hitler and the
Nazis, and of course, Tojo. And of course, to the friendly, democratic,
and peace loving Vietnamese (as soon as they are finished in Cambodia
and the ``special education camps''), who have this great inherent
talent for being travel agents -- i.e., all those nice boat people
excursion tours. Then we'd better work back to the Kaiser in WWI,
and better apologize to the South for interferring in states rights
in the 1860's ....