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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Orphaned Response (US aid to Satan)
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 00:10:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 00:10:03 1985
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> [baba@spar]
> >> Having sold the Nicaraguan people down the river with its aid to
> >> the Sandinistas, the US has an OBLIGATION to at least match that
> >> with aid to the resistance. [janw@inmet]
> 
> >At the time that the aid was offered, there were still significant democratic
> >and nationalist factions within the Sandinista directorate.  Offering aid
> >in an attempt to strengthen their position was both morally and realistically
> >a reasonable thing to do.  I fail to see how doing so "sold the Nicaraguan
> >people down the river", when the Sandinistas were already in power and
> >indeed were at the peak of their popularity.
> 
> I have no doubt it was an honest mistake. Therefore,  "sold  down
> the  river"  is  a  harsh  expression.  This  was  a one-liner in
> response to some flaming rhetoric, not a  dissertation.
> 
> 		Jan Wasilewsky

I don't understand.  Is there some reason why one-liners need to contain
less truth than other observations?  I think the word you want is
"slogan", not "one-liner".

>                                                           However,
> if  it *was* a mistake that strengthened, not the democratic fac-
> tions, but the totalitarian core, and gave a push down the  slip-
> pery slope of totalitarianism,- *if* this opinion of mine is true
> - the moral obligation is there.

On the other hand, if it was an act that unknowingly strengthened
the secret Illuminati cabal that *really* contols Nicaragua, and
it hastens the immanentization of the eschaton with the return
of the Old Ones - *if* this opinion of mine (which is as well
substantiated as yours) is true - the moral obligation is utterly
absent.

						Baba