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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua:Re to nrh
Message-ID: <871@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 19:58:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.871
Posted: Tue Dec 10 19:58:04 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 19:14:09 EST
References: <7559@ucla-cs.UUCP> <7800764@inmet.UUCP> <417@whuts.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <417@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>Yes, there *is* a way to at least approximately measure the
>degradation and death caused 
>a)before the Sandinistas revolution
>b)after the Sandinistas revolution
>c)after the Contras began their war

Really, this doesn't tell us anything about what the contras would do.  Even
that portion of the contras which were formerly Samozaist (certainly not all,
as far as I can tell not even a majority) deny that they would reinstate
such policies.  (I don't much believe *them*, but I have rather more
confidence in the remainder than in the Sandinistas.)
 
>One of the reasons I oppose
>violence as a means of social change, even for good ends, is
>that it tends to promote the careers and power of those who are
>the most violent: the Pinochets, Stalins, and others who
>grab power after violent takeovers.

You forget to mention the Sandinistas.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108