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To: Neocon who wrote (86039)	8/22/2000 6:38:02 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

There were prominent anti-Somoza figures, like the Chamorros, in Nicaragua, but did they have the mass base - especially outside Managua - or the armed strength to force the Sandinistas to form a coalition? Very doubtful. Lots of charges flew against the people who recognized the reality of Chiang. Even Joe Stilwell was accused of being a Commie sympathizer at various times. The question is not whether charges were made, but whether there was any sense to them. The fight against the Nazis and the Japanese was driven less by ideology than by self-defense. Ideology became a negative factor in the Cold War when we insisted on interpreting all the world's affairs through the simplistic lens of left-right conflict, which led us to throw our resources behind fading colonial powers, fading feudal dictatorships, and other unsustainable powers. This allowed our opponents to seize the moral high ground and win substantial mass support in the developing world.