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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Nicaragua (Re: Air raid on Libya)
Message-ID: <948@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-May-86 22:54:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 24 22:54:37 1986
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Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <715@utastro.UUCP> ethan@utastro.UUCP writes:
>In article <1315@rlvd.UUCP>, kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey) writes:
>> In article <767@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP writes:
>> >You seem to have the sequence backward.  The US government WAS very
>> >helpful to the Sandinistas immediately after they took power -- it was
>> >because of the totalitarian tendencies of the Sandinistas that our 
>> >government stopped helping them, and started helping the contras.
>> >
>> >> Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
>> >Doesn't anyone in Europe READ?
>> Not the propaganda bullshit that you do, apparently.
>Mr. Cramer got it right and you've got it wrong. <...>

I refrained from continuing arguing in the first place, as 1) I didn't
expect enough a constructive debate to come out of it, and 2) I thought
it would die out quickly if I remained silent. However, 2) was proven to
be a wrong expectation from my side; instead this is getting just worse.

I've no doubt Mr. Cramer has described the history of US policy in
Nicaragua correctly, but I wasn't talking history. I only made a
suggestion for the future. What I'm interested in is whether the
current policy of supporting contras is likely to establish democracy
in Nicaragua or not, and what the time schedule is. Good arguments
might even convince me (definitely no smiley face here). Insinuations
(sorry for the strong word) about analphabetism won't.

I'm sorry I didn't try to clear this up earlier. I don't like seeing
my words being used in the pie-war between USA and Europe, and I do
by NO means agree with Mr. Dancey about "propaganda" and alike. I've
much better confidence in the US democratic system than that! However,
we are now talking foreign policy.
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)