Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Well, Reagan was RIGHT!! Message-ID: <314@talcott.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 23:08:00 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.314 Posted: Sat Mar 2 23:08:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:07:38 EST References: <643@decwrl.UUCP> <541@fisher.UUCP> <5040@fortune.UUCP> <548@fisher.UUCP> <928@ru-cs44.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 24 > 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. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "2*x^5-10*x+5=0 is not solvable by radicals." -Evariste Galois.