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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Sandinista Problem II:  The Home Front
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 16:46:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 16:46:06 1986
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In article <12256@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu (Tom Tedrick) writes:
> >The invasion requires
> >strong support or it is doomed at the outset.  
> 
> This part I disagree with. The trick is to finish the invasion quickly.
> As long as you have a quick victory, you will have support from most
> of the population. If you blow it and get entangled in a long drawn
> out struggle (war of attrition) then your support will erode.

What you prefer is to present the American people with a fait accompli,
as Reagan did with Grenada. The very essence of democracy. Really Neat!