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From: berman@ihuxm.UUCP (Rational Chuzpah)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Agents, Everywhere!
Message-ID: <1057@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 10:19:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 12 10:19:50 1984
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>I wasn't aware that the US had recently invaded any "allies" for
>disagreeing with it on political matters. The only US military
>actions in the last 40 years have been in response to invasions
>by Soviet troops or agents.
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>	Wayne
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    The catch phrase  "...or agents..." is the real Reaganite Orwellian
Catch.

    Peasants uprising against hunger and an oppressive oligarchy in
El Salvador are re-defined as "Soviet agents." Massive US military
assistance, including direct US military involvement,  (1984)
becomes a "response" to a fantasied Soviet involvement.

     Invasion of tiny Grenada (1983) becomes justified as a "response"
to non-existent  Soviet agents.

      Military aid and training to the despised Somocistas trying
to overthrow the Nicaraguan government (1982-1984) is justified
because the Nicaraguans  are not merely Nicaraguan, they're "agents"
(of who???, why of the 'focus of evil'! of course!)

     U.S. Marines invading  the Dominican Republic (1965) to overthrow a 
popular reform government becomes justified as only a "response"
to a fantasied Soviet involvement.

     CIA overthrow of a reform-minded Guatemalan government (1954), 
is merely a response to non-existent Soviet agents.

      The list goes on: US direct or covert military intervention
in Iran, Lebanon, Congo, Chile...  all over the last 40 years,
all in the name of a "response" to "Soviet agents".

      What crimes cannot be committed in the name of a response
to these all-pervasive "agents"?

      What crimes cannot be committed when one views the world
as a John Wayne movie?

                                     Andy Berman

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