Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Frank Reid
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sun Oct 02 2005 08:36 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Frank Reid to Angus McLeod on Sun Oct 02 2005 04:10:00

 > Let me tell you a boring war story that's probably of not much significance 
 > interest to anyone other than a couple dozen "Cold War dinosaur" families, l
 > mine...

(Where's my Page-Down key?)

 > Okay, so what's the point?

I dunno.  I would have had to read that crap before I could comment.

 > Wouldn't the easy thing have been for the U.S. to walk away from its 
 > Caribbean friends when the going got tough?  I mean, sugar cane and rum 
 > aren't so important that we should have to let innocent Americans
 > be ambushed, right?

Sugar cane and rum seem important enough for you to still be pissed at 
Castro nearly *fifty years* after he nationalized your plantatiopns in 
that country.

 > If we had, Angus, do you think you might today be grumbling about more 
 > pressing issues than the high Barbadian tax rate?  I spend too much 
 > time bouncing around Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama to believe a
 > country in that region could have withstood the Soviet political onslaught h
 > it not been for the continuous and dominant American military presence in th
 > region.

And I am supposed to believe that, somehow, you had the RIGHT to interfere 
in the political destinies of those countries?  Or are you just playing 
a self-serving game of dominos again?

 > Your flag would now be adorned with a hammer and sickle, and your
 > tourism industry would be an occasional Krivak or Sovremenny!

Not really your concern, is it?  

 > However, if you think communism would have afforded you an acceptable qualit
 > of life, beyond the lack of technical innovation and the paucity of shoes, t
 > you don't need to be appreciative.

I am indeed appreciative of the good that America does.  And critical of 
the bad.  Unfortunately for you, yopu can't tell the difference.

 > If not, I'll remind you again that freed isn't free, and you can thank 
 > my wife directly for yours!

Your wife?  Gee, I guess I shouldn't have cut out that huge chunk of crap 
without reading it...


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