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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Grenada rescue & weakness
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Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 18:28:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  4 18:28:56 1984
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When I first heard of the Grenada invasion, I thought that for almost
the first time, Reagan had done something right, by showing that a bloody
group of murderers could not take over a small country with impunity.
But then he started giving reasons for the invasion, and I realized
that although he may have done the right thing, it was for all the
wrong reasons, which meant that the important message was not there.
Hence, only the mass of Grenadians benefited, rather than the world
at large.

Incidentally, you may not have noticed that since the invasion, the
caretaker government has reversed many of the Bishop government's
good policies, such as trying to make the island agriculturally
self-supporting.  Eric Gairy may well make it back to power and
re-install the goon squads and state terror that led to the Bishop
revolution in the first place.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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