{"id":19768,"date":"2010-07-17T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2010-07-17T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T18:30:10","slug":"post-reagan-is-arming-mex-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19768","title":{"rendered":"Post: Reagan is arming Mex cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that Reagan and Bush I are supplying the drug cartels in Mexico with hand grenades with this headline and first paragraph of a story today;<\/p>\n

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Of course, if you read further in the article, you’ll find this paragraph towards the end of the page that’s added almost as an after thought;<\/p>\n

Not all grenades found in Mexico are American-made. Many are of Asian or Soviet and Eastern European manufacture, ATF officials said, probably given to leftist insurgents by Cuba and Nicaragua’s Sandinistas. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the point of the article is that we shouldn’t support foreign governments who are battling the same enemies we’re fighting. We sent grenades, among other arms to aid our allies who were fighting for their lives against communists. It wasn’t some nebulous ideology, it was a real threat which thrived on an imprisoned population and they murdered their citizens without a hint of justice. <\/p>\n

It happened in Cambodia, Cuba and Vietnam, and it would have happened in Central America without US support to popularly elected governments. The fact that “many” of the grenades are from Communist Europe attests to that threat. We didn’t win the cold war by sitting on our lawns working out the complexities of lawn darts.<\/p>\n

When communism was no longer a threat, we left (so much for being imperialist war lords) and those countries, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica got back to their own business. Part of their own business was guarding the grenades we left them. They’re not children – we don’t have to take all of the dangerous toys away when we leave.<\/p>\n

Racist Leftists piss me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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