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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Well, Reagan was RIGHT!!
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Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 23:08:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  2 23:08:00 1985
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> So communist weapons found in Grenada ?  So what?  I don't see how that
> justifies an invasion on the part of the US.  So what if the guerillas
> in El Salvador use Soviet weapons?  Don't the contra in Nicaragua use
> weapons supplied by the US?
>
> I fail to see the difference.
...
> Cathy Garlick 		(mcvax!ukc!ru-cs44!cathy)

I think the issue here is that Reagan's opponents believe that the
Sandinistas in El Salvador exist because of popular support, while the
Reagan Administration maintains they exist because of Soviet support.  This
was the rational behind mining Nicaragua's harbors, I suppose.  Some of his
opposition, in order to prove Reagan wrong on absolutely every point, go so
far as to say, "Not only is it the case that the contras do not depend on
Soviet support, they don't *have* Soviet support," in which case
connecting weapons in Grenada to those in El Salvador proves one of the
President's points both in El Salvador and in Grenada, where there is a
similar controversy.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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