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Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Self-determination (question for Matthews)
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Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 19:55:15 EST
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> Jim, do you believe the Nicaraguans have a right to a foreign policy
> independent of U.S. influence?  Or do you think the U.S. should have
> veto power over Nicaraguan allies (e.g. Cuba and USSR)?
> 
> Do you think that any election in which a Marxist party gains control
> is automatically rigged?  Do you believe a country has a right to
> choose a socialist development path without U.S. interference?
> 
> These, I think, are the key questions in Nicaragua.
> 
> Mike Kelly

Sorry to jump in here, but my experience tells me that the
world politics, like all other things in our life, is influenced
more by self interest and expediency of the moment than by any
thing else.

Right of Nicaraguans (or of their government) to determine their
own foreign policy directly affects economic and security interests
of the U.S.. When economic and security interests of the U.S. are
threatened, no ideological/ethical/moral argument will affect the
eventual policy of the administration. It will be and should be
determined by the self interests of the U.S., rights of anyone else
not withstanding.

As regards any Marxist party winning in an election, the only
problem is that, while the initial win may be genuine and democratic
in every sense of the word, it usually is the last election in that
country. People no longer can change their mind about it.

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Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00    (408) 746-6058

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