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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberals: Part II
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 13:13:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 13:13:41 1984
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> 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.

Please let us know what action involving troops you would propose after
the Soviets invaded Afghanistan (a land-locked country adjacent to the
USSR).  Perhaps you would call for a full scale airborne assault from
US carriers based in the Arabian Sea, or maybe Pakistan would let us
use their nation as a staging area for a land assault?  Maybe we ought
to invade Cuba in retaliation?

There are a lot of people who are both fed up with Carter and disagree
with President Reagan's macho chest beating.  It was time long ago for
the U.S. to stop supporting right-wing dicatorships just because
they are anti-communist.  This country's proper position ought to be
as the protagonist of democracy, rather than merely as the antagonist
of communism.

As a case in point, consider India.  Whatever its problems, including
the actions of Indira in 1975, this country is the largest democracy
in the world.  However, because she has refused to cater to the demands
of the U.S. by remaining one of the non-aligned nations, and also due
to its underground testing of a single nuclear device in 1974, relations
between the U.S. and India have been strained for years.  We have
consistently backed her antagonists (Pakistan in particular, whose
president Zia gained power during a coup in July 1977) and the amount
of aid given to India is ridiculous considering it's size, it's potential,
it's problems, and the fact that it is a TRUE DEMOCRACY.

-- 
Not a Soviet dupe, not an imperialist pig-dog,
Don't have enough hair to be fuzzy headed...

{ihnp4 hao philabs sdcrdcf ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat	Larry Tepper
Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028		303-673-5435