So you are arguing Carter's acquiescing to the Soviet sponsored regime change in Nicaragua was okay. You do realize that the Reagan era struggle against the Sandinistas had very little to do with 'molding' Nicaragua to our will than it did in thwarting Khrushchev's plan to 'mold' Nicaragua to the will of the U.S.S.R. You and WTF are fooling yourselves if you believe that the 1979 rise to power of the Sandinistas was the action of a free society: it was a Soviet sponsored insurgency. Originally Posted by I B HankeringNo. I'm saying that our meddling didn't do a damn thing. It rarely does. Is Iraq free? Will Afghanistan ever be free? Is VietNam free? Is Egypt free? Tunisia? Somalia? Hell, how many of the former Soviet republics are free? A few, but not many. How about Iran? Syria? Lebanon?
We need to lead by example, not by force. We focus so much on our "enemies" that we have become like them. Is America free? Hell, no! We have the illusion of freedom, but what freedom is there, really? The President can order the killing of American citizens without trial. The military can arrest and detain American citizens on American soil without habeas corpus, or any legal representation. The only requirement is that someone "thinks" they might be somehow linked to terrorist activity. Man, we are blind in this country. We have traded liberty for security, and we have precious little of either.