Reagan Policy in Nicaragua
So President Reagan pounded on his desk and declared, “We have got to get where we can run a foreign policy without a committee of 535 telling us what to do.”
He means Congress, folks. Remember, the foreign policy he’s talking about is his stated determination to bring Nicaragua the true light of democracy.
His version, of course, lets the word of his god, as revealed through Reagan, outvote Congress and justifies his continued “covert” and illegal acts in Central America. The late Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza, would have understood. So will whatever puppet Reagan forces on Nicaragua, if only Congress will get out of his way.
Reagan’s desire to bring “democracy” to Nicaragua by somehow getting by democracy here fits perfectly with his determination to save Nicaraguans from the “evil empire” by killing them.
GLEN ROBERTS
San Diego
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