RE: an arteest

I agree that we stick our nose in too many places too often but notice where
your friend went when he felt unsafe in his own country. I attended a
church in Albuquerque for years whose members were refugees from Cuba,
Dominican Republic, Haiti and many countries from Central and South America.
If Mr. Carter and others weren't so easy on Castro many of their family
members would be alive today. I agree that we must be doubly careful about
who we arm and support but every Marxist country I know about is
exponentially worse to its own. I am just sick of all those who can only
see Americans as the bad guys. Our government is perfect and can always be
improved and balanced but compared to what is in the rest of the world, I
choose here every time. We New Mexicans are Jealous of our rights but we
are not shirkers when it comes to laying our lives on the line. Many of my
family marched the road of Death in Bataan and many Philippinos still show
their appreciation to this day. One of my company commanders was a
Philippino national and his family still honored those who died on the
Bataan Peninsula. My grand father fought and was wounded on Guadalcanal,
and others of my family that I never got the opportunity to meet died on
Omaha Beach. I too have born arms. I am not ashamed of that, nor ever will
be.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:36 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: an arteest

Daniel, our government succeeded in supporting these atrocities overseas
by keeping the US public ignorant of the nature of the people it was
supporting. The US media pretty consistently reports about the tyrants
we oppose and ignores the tyrants we support. I will say that US policy
varied from administration to administration: an Argentine friend of
mine said that his governement caused 30,000 or so of its citizens to
"disappear" during the 70s and 80s, his brother being one of them. He
came to the US before he was next. President Carter, he said, applied
heavy pressure on the Argentine gov't while in office and things were a
bit better. President Reagan, he said, didn't care at all. So he had
to leave.

I have several friends who work as missionaries in Central and South
America (mostly Central). One friend one day came across a village
entirely populated by women and children. He was told that the Contras
came through and killed all the men then raped the women, so many of the
children were actually children of the Contras. You think US media ever
reported this? Of course not...it was too busy reporting about the
Marxists taking over Nicaragua.

The situation there is more complex, of course, than bad US supported
dictators pillaging an innocent public, as if Central America would be a
utopia should the US just leave people alone. Everyone is screwing
everyone. When I visited Chiapas in 1998 I saw tens of thousands of
Evangelical Christians living in a shantytown outside of San Cristobal
because other locals (whose religion was a blend of Catholicism and old
Indian religions) kicked them off the land. Wealthy landowners tend to
be running things down there. They don't need the US to screw over
their own people. They do it just fine on their own.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

>In general, but not when least means anarchy.
>Daniel
>
>
>And therefor, the simple conclusion is - the government that governs best
>is the government that governs least.
>
>JPB
>

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