Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!enmasse!mroddy From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Huh? (GRENADA) Message-ID: <364@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 16:14:43 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.364 Posted: Tue Mar 5 16:14:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:42:46 EST References: <643@decwrl.UUCP> <541@fisher.UUCP> <5040@fortune.UUCP> <548@fisher.UUCP> <928@ru-cs44.UUCP> <314@talcott.UUCP> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 43 > [ 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 Net working, Just reading the news. (harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)