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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He's not the first terrorist legitimized by the West and he won't be the last. Think of the contras in Nicaragua or Jonas Savimbi, to take just two examples. Think of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. It's like you're waste-deep in manure and worrying about some shit on your hands. I'm not saying it's not shit -- I'm saying, try to keep your perspective, man.
And, BTW, it's not like I voted to give either him or Pearl Buck the Nobel Prize. Take it up with the academy, or the dynamite heirs, or whoever.
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There is a difference between "working with" and bestowing the title of "peacemaker". I will give you Jonas Savimbi but the Contras were not "terrorists". The were fighting against a government that was a dictatorship and they focused their fire on government troops. Yes, as with all soldiers, some got out of hand, but the labeling of the contras as terrorists was done by people who were sympathetic to the Sandinastas and refused to believe that the Sandinats were totalitarians that could care less about human rights and democracy. Because of the contras we now have a free market, human right respecting democracy in Nicaragua. Without the contras the Sandinistas would never have called an election and would still rule Nicaragua like Castro still rules Cuba.
