Another precious moment from shrub...

Bill Stewart bill.stewart at pobox.com
Sat Oct 20 14:15:12 PDT 2001


At 12:30 AM 10/20/2001 -1000, Reese wrote:
>At 01:51 AM 10/20/01 -0700, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> >In Latin America one Soviet sponsored tyranny was overthrown, and replaced
> >by democracy,
>
>Name?

If this is the Soviet sponsored tyranny that replaced 40 years of
"He may be an SOB, but he's OUR SOB" brutal dictatorship,
it's Nicaragua.

And the US government spent $9/voter (or maybe vote, I don't remember which)
on campaign funding for the election where Chamorro beat Ortega -
that's far beyond the amounts spent in normal US elections -
plus they'd funded military resistance and civil war against the
Sandinistas, so the economy was seriously damaged not only by
Marxist stupidity and traditional cronyism and corruption,
which would have done a number on it all by themselves,
but by the need to spend large amounts on the military,
the destruction caused by both sides of the conflict,
and the diversion of otherwise-productive people into war,
and of course by the serious limitations on international trade
caused by the US military mining their harbors.





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