orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (10/25/84)
> > Under Mondale we will go back to a "punching bag" for a foreign policy. > Under the Carter/Mondale administration the president of the United States > was negotiating with the student terrorists in Iran. RONALD REAGAN freed the > american hostages held in Iran the day he took office. Iran knew it could > "punch" the Carter/Mondale administration around but not Ronald Reagan so > they let the hostages go the day (the hour) Reagan took over. > > The Carter/Mondale administration 'let' two of our allies get over thrown by > hostile governments. Because of this the U.S. has had nothing but trouble > from Iran and Nicaragwa. Carter/Mondale almost let El Salvador get over taken > by communist rebels. Ronald Reagan has stopped this trend. > > The threat > of nuclear war is less because of our strength and the spread of communism has > stopped. > First off, we are NOW beginning to see the good fruits of Jimmy Carter's Foreign Policy based upon Human Rights and support for Democracy rather than craven support for military dictatorships. Argentina has just elected a democratic government and that government invited Carter to come visit in gratitude for his Human Rights campaign which helped make their move towards democracy possible. Ms. Fitzpatrick strongly criticized Carter for blocking a coup against the democratically elected government of Hermano Zuazo in Bolivia. That government, for all its problems has remained in power for 3 years and NOT turned towards Communism or Moscow. Panama is about to elect a strongly pro-US government because Carter negotiated a reasonable new Panama Canal Treaty (which Reagan strongly opposed at the time)If America stands for anything in the world we should stand for democracy and the protection of human rights. If we do not, we may make the rest of the world cower in fear of our awesome military power but we will not gain their admiration or respect. And in the long run we will wind up losing out to revolutionary movements against the oppression of military dictatorships. Augusto Pinochet ,the Chilean dictator, recently said that his relations with the US were never better than under Reagan. What will happen to those relations when he is ultimately toppled? The government of South Africa feels it is supported by Reagan--in fact Reagan renewed arms shipments to South Africa. How long can the white minority in South Africa continue to dominate a vastly more populous black majority? Rhodesia fell, when will South Africa? Supporting democracy and human rights is not only the morally right thing to do it is strategically correct. Try as we may eventually these dictatorships will fall. If we have totally supported them, the new groups coming to power will naturally be against us. They will seek their support from Moscow. Secondly, right now we have 2500 more Soviet nuclear warheads pointed at us than when Reagan came into office. So we are safer? Reagan has announced that he is going to violate SALT II in 1985-- the Federation of American Scientists just released a report that the Soviets are in far better position to benefit from the scrapping of SALT II--while they are limited to 818 ICBM's under SALT II and have dismantled old weapons systems to keep under this limit as new ones are deployed, they could deploy hundreds more if SALT II is scrapped by both sides. If you vote for Reagan you are voting for just one thing: More War in '84! Tim Sevener whuxl!orb
medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin) (10/28/84)
Good Greif, Carter administration policies just about to bear fruit? Come off it. This was the Bozo who nearly lost el salvador! Its the Reagan administration whoose turned things around. As for violating SALT, big deal. Fat lot of good it did us. And by the way, I still havent recieved from you the hard data behind your claim that we can blow up the entire planets x times over. I am still looking forward to seeing it, or will you concede that you were way off base? Milo