Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!ut-sally!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Degradation and Death in Nicaragua Message-ID: <1844@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 04:49:53 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1844 Posted: Sat Dec 21 04:49:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Dec-85 05:45:54 EST References: <2273@burdvax.UUCP> Organization: Ken Kopp's Fresh Seafood Tank Lines: 23 > >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. So? What does professionalism have to do with fighting? Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were not soldiers by profession, but half of them died just like they'd been soldiers all their lives. US troops? I fear you may get your wish -- I can still remember groups of rowdys around campus marching around drunkenly shouting "We want war!" just after the invasion of Grenada. I'm not kidding. If you don't want to go, because you are not a "professional," you don't object to your son going, do you? There are many folks in America who would feel better about Screaming Eagles dying killing in Nicaragua or El Salvador than in an airplane crash. When I see postings like this, a bitterness fills my soul that will not be dispersed with the light of morning, or of a new year.