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Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberals: Part II
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 23:18:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 23:18:57 1984
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> Well I'm glad to see there are level headed and reasonable people on
> the net such as Milo and Simard.  You fuzzy headed liberals use the
> 'squeeky gear' theory. Your always on the net yelling liberal views
> the LOUDEST.
> 
> The claim that Jimmy's fruits were bearing in El Salvado is crazy.  They
> damn near went communist.  Ronnie put a halt to that fast.  In fact the
> the spread of communisim for the last four years is -1 (Grenada).  Under
> Carter it was +2.  Nicaragwa and Afganistan.  The Russians saw him as a
> WIMP when he did'nt have the BALLS to save his own people.  They (Soviets)
> figured if he won't save his own people he surely won't commit troops to
> Afganistan to save goat farmers ---- So they invaded and they were right.
> He was and is a wimp.

Reagan isn't a wimp? Somebody made the (very good) point that at least Carter 
tried to do something about the hostages, and nobody did get killed, whereas
three times so far, we've been bombed in Lebanon and Reagan hasn't lifted
a finger, either to retaliate or to to prevent it from happening again.
Pretty wimpy, I'd say.

Also, you seem to have a very simple-minded idea of foreign policy -- stopping
communism (Leninism, that is) is the most important foreign policy goal
of the US, but you can't just count governments like you are doing. Reagan
has (arguably) prevented the spread of communism, but at the expense of
making some of the most repressive anti-communist regiemes worse, and making
it easier for the communists to take over in the future.

I won't say things were better under Carter, or will be under Mondale. The
fact is that since Nixon our prestige in the world has been going steadily
downhill, and neither of the candidates now are likely to stop that decline.

	Wayne