Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site burdvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!burdvax!bnapl From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua Message-ID: <2273@burdvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 12:05:52 EST Article-I.D.: burdvax.2273 Posted: Wed Dec 18 12:05:52 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 21:53:45 EST References: <7559@ucla-cs.UUCP> <7800764@inmet.UUCP> <417@whuts.UUCP> <7927@ucla-cs.ARPA> <2262@burdvax.UUCP> Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon Lines: 38 In article myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) writes: > >This sounds like guilt by association by innuendo. If the shoe fits, ... > >If you think the ``freedom fighters'' [pah!] need your help, why don't you >go put your life on the line and go fight at their sides? The only folks >from the US that I see doing this are mercenaries and CIA operatives. > I'm not a soldier by profession, but I would be willing to support the use of US troops in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas. Maybe we should invite the Cubans to leave as we did in Grenada. >The people of Nicaragua are coming to play a role in their own destinies >rather than only Washington's. The US gives aid to various countries and >does not necessarily completely dominate their societies. So do Cuba and >the USSR. > >Jeff Myers The Ortegas are restricting the freedoms of the Nicaraguan people in the same manner as the Soviets and Cubans. They are Marxist/Leninists of the same ilk as Gorbachev and Castro. On second thought, maybe Stalinist would be a better term. -- / / / Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. ===/ / /=== ...{presby|psuvax1|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl ===/ / /=== ===/ / /=== / / / "We apologize for the inconvenience"