Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: RE: Reagan's joke Message-ID: <394@vu44.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 01:11:40 EDT Article-I.D.: vu44.394 Posted: Fri Sep 21 01:11:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:29:55 EDT References: <479@tty3b.UUCP> <1731@sdcc6.UUCP> <5971@mcvax.UUCP> <1843@ucbvax.ARPA> <1844@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 30 Wayne@ucbvax: > Do you think they enjoy the Communist terrorist groups, in El > Salvador, and the government of Nicaragua? First: I would really like it if you used a more unbiased term than 'communist terrorist groups'. Why do americans always talk about the Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and the Communist Terrorists in countries that are supported by the US? This is exactly the style of propagandistic talk that you always condemn if it comes form the USSR...... Second: If I see that the freedom fighters in El Salvador have been firmly supported by the church, and still are, even though you don't see it very much, since the government shot all the bishops and priests who opposed them, I can't believe that they are 'communist terrorists'. The reason that they accept help from communist countries is very simple: who else should they turn to? Third: Even though the situation in El Salvador might be very unclear, things in Nicaragua are very clear. Until the CIA put the country under pressure *for no reason at all*, everyone in the country supported the government. Now that the US is supplying the rebels with weapons etc, the Nicaraguan government has to take some impopular measures to withstand the threat. I *do* agree that some errors were made, but the whole situation was caused by the CIA. If they hadn't interfered, the Mesquitos would still be living in there homes, and besides that, the economy and the eduction program would be in much better state by now. Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack