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[Spanky]

This debate reminds me of two other decisions Democrats made that were a screw up and the fact that they still deny they were screw ups shows why they can't be trusted with foreign policy.

1) Pulling the support from the Contras in Nicaragua. Every time a Communist dictatorship took over the liberals accused the opposition to the communist regime as corrupt and terrorists. They also always claimed that this new Communist regime were good communists who were going to set up a good socialist system and not make the same mistakes as the previous attempts at communism and socialism. They have never learned the lesson. During the Soviet Civil war, the White armies were accused of being terrorists and corrupt so we pulled our support. Chiang Kai Check was accused of being corrupt and a terrorist by the left. Chiang Kai Check moved to Taiwan produced an economic miracle where the average citizen is worth twenty times the per capita income of the average Chinese. Of course corrupt and terrorist Chiang never inflicted a cultural revolution, great leap forward, or political purge on his country and his government eventually turned into a democracy. During the Korean War the South Korean government was accused by the liberals as a corrupt and terrorist regime and did all sorts of terrible things. Of course that corrupt and evil government has turned South Korea into an economic miracle that is a multiparty democracy. Ron Dellums and Tom Hayden said that Castro was a new type of Communist who wouldn't set up a regime similar to that of China or Russia. Of course Cuba is now an Economic basket case with tens of thousands of people in prison and labor camps. Then came Nicaragua. The Democrats claimed that Ortega was a different type of communist and would not set up the same type of system that existed in Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Of course once they started grabbing peasants’ land, these people turned into the Contras, but these peasants who lost their land were immediately labeled as terrorists by the liberals in this country. Kerry went down and met with Ortega and said he was a nice guy that we could work with. Of course the Contras pushed Ortega into having elections, in which "the terrorists" won overwhelmingly (and put a former Contra into the presidency) and still the liberals claim that pulling support form the Contra's was the right thing. Isn't it amazing how these evil terrorists that did so many terrible things won the hearts of the people, where Ortega, who was such a wonderful new socialist, the people turned him out? If the Liberals had their way (and Oliver North and Pointdexter didn't) Nicaragua (and El Salvador) would be no different from Cuba right now. The liberals were doing their best to turn Nicaragua and El Salvador into another Cuba, China, Cambodia or Vietnam, but because they did not have their way, these people are not now living in a country no different from a prison. Until they admit they were wrong on Nicaragua, they can't be trusted.

2) SDI. North Korea has a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it. Iran may be in the same situation soon, but the liberals still argue that SDI is a mistake. Until they admit they were wrong on SDI they can't be trusted.