gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) (01/01/70)
> Our efforts in Nicaraugua are just as bogus and self serving > as the crap the Russians are pulling in Afghanistan. ... > Mark Roddy Perhaps. But there are big differences that you've overlooked. I will list the biggest ones: 1) There are 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. There are no U.S. troops in Nicaragua. There are not that many soldiers on all sides put together in Nicaragua and El Salvador put together. 2) The Soviets use napalm and attack helicopters. The contras have no attack helicopters and wouldn't know napalm if they saw it. 3) There are no protests, no reports, and no comments about the invasion of Afghanistan in the Soviet Union. One very common answer to an opinion poll I saw was, "Afghanistan? Are there Soviet troops in Afghanistan?" 4) The Reagan Administration is four years old, while the invasion of Afghanistan is five years old. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.
mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) (03/06/85)
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[ in reference to guns in Grenada]
To deny the difference between the contras based in Hondouras
and Guatemala, and the Salvadoran rebels is true political blindness.
The administration would like us to believe that because
soviet rifles may be in Salvadoran rebel hands, that the
war against Nicaraugua is justified. They would like us
to believe that the U.S. effort in central america is
merely a response in kind to the U.S.S.R's efforts on
behalf of the Salvadoran rebels.
Well excuse me, but I don't recall that the Salvadoran
rebels have large base camps in Nicaraugua, Soviet air
and Naval support in reserve, or a large contingent of
Soviet troops on joint permanent maneuvers with the
Nicarauguan armed forces.
This is just the big lie again folks, you've seen it before
with Viet Nam, and now you are seeing it again.
Our efforts in Nicaraugua are just as bogus and self serving
as the crap the Russians are pulling in Afghanistan.
It's so easy to distinguish the 'rebels' from the 'mercenaries'.
The rebels have the support of the people. They survive,
inside the country of a hostile government, because
they ARE the people. The mercenaries need base camps in safe
areas outside of the target country to hide in, they can operate
only briefly in the target country, because the people rat on them.
They AREN'T the people.
This test is non-ideological. Afghan rebels pass, Salvadoran rebels
pass, the contras fail.
--
Mark Roddy
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Just reading the news.
(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)