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To: marcos who wrote (213)	11/4/2001 11:55:11 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 1293

Hi marcos; Re the article by Jonathan Powers asking for the United States to stay out of Nicaragua this time... The main reason the US got involved in Nicaragua at that time was because we were running a nasty Cold War against the Communists. There was at that time no history of a nation turning back to Democracy after trying Communism, so there was a tendency to stop them from falling into Communism early. This all seemed very reasonable at the time, and such activities are common to wartime throughout history. England did it's share of the same stuff during WW2, and even got involved in stuff later that was a bit much (Suez canal). If the US government had known that the Soviet Union was going to collapse, the Warsaw Pact was going to disappear and that China was going to slowly convert to Capitalism (and Democracy, eventually), they'd have saved the blood and treasure spent in Nicaragua. But that wasn't known at the time. Maybe the CIA had put out a bulletin to the effect that the Soviets were crumbling, but that was certainly not the general expectation. -- Carl

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