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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel: Some key fa
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 13:04:03 EDT
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> >    The simple fact is that the most powerful nation in the world is fuming
> > with hostility at a tiny, bankrupt but proud (read, uncooperative) neighbor.
> > Not being saints, the leadership has responded to this threat the way all
> > nations have responded to similar situations: with desperate militarism
> > and nationalism.
> 
> [janw]
> Again: the "response" came before the threat.   And  many  people
> feel  that  here is a "tiny, proud" tentacle of the Soviet squid.
> *That* beast is large; no shame in combatting it where you can.
> 

Bullshit.  You know nothing about the timing of events in the early years
which forced Nicaragua to go to the Warsaw Pact for arms.  The Sandinistas
tried extremely hard to continue on with US and Western European weapons,
but were only able to forge a small deal with France due to US pressure.
Again, why don't you check out the May/June issue of NACLA Reports?
I admit, it is difficult to read with your eyes tightly closed.

> In any case, Contras are as Nicaraguan as are the Sandinistas; in
> helping  them,  we are *helping* a tiny neighbor. Was any outside
> help to Sandinistas against Somoza a cowardly attack on  a  small
> nation?  If not, then sauce for the goose should be sauce for the
> gander.
> 
> 	Jan Wasilewsky

You make me sick, Jan.  The Guardia Nacional are as Nicarguan as the
Sandinistas in the same sense that the Waffen SS were as German as the
underground.  They murdered about 2% of the population in the last few
years of Somoza's reign.  While all the contras are not Guardia, most
of the top level military leadership is, along with the usual smattering
of mercenaries and CIA operatives.

Regardless of the exact composition of the contras, they have killed 9000
Nicaraguans in the last five years, mostly civilian (campesinos, health
workers, and educators in the north, mainly).  If, say, the USSR were
supporting a similar group of cut-throats based in Canada, and they were
killing US citizens in the same proportion, 900,000 of our brothers and
sisters would be dead.

Think about that.

jeff m