Another Day, Another ‘Hat
While gay activists dance on President Reagan’s grave because he failed to wave his magic presidential wand and end the AIDS crisis in the U.S., where he was President, other leftists attack him for spreading tuberculosis in Nicaragua, where he wasn’t. Greg Palast of Working for Change non-explains his theory this way:
People don’t die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he didn’t like the government that the people there had elected.
The mental giant does not elaborate as to whether he was equally outraged last year when President Bush invaded Iraq because he didn’t like the government the people there had elected (twice). He does, however, ask rhetorically what the Sandis would have wanted with Texas, which was a 48 hour drive away, while ignoring the mischief they, with help from their friends the then-existent Soviet Union, were causing in other countries closer than that.
Not content to rant only about his communist friends in Nicaragua, however, Greggy then goes on to belittle the liberation of Grenada from its Stalinist despots as a “little Club Med war” and even “a murderous PR stunt.” As to Iran, he further claims that his hero Jimmy Carter “wouldn’t give an inch to the Ayatolla” Khomeini. Silly me, I thought abandoning support for the Shah counted as a little more than an inch.
Meanwhile, Christopher Hitchens reminds us that while he was a good guy on Operation Iraqi Freedom, he is not to be mistaken for a good guy overall. Drudge says Ted Rall is being his usual asstastic self, too, but the link isn’t working right now. Maybe tomorrow’s whinepost will accuse a bunch of right-wing meanies of launching a DOS attack to silence his precious dissent.
June 9th, 2004 at 7:23 am
Y’know, I used to be sympathetic to the FSLN when I lived in Costa Rica back in the mid-80s. But after quite a bit of research, it was plain that the Sandis completely lied about their goals, to get the support of a huge section of the Nica populace (the “Grupo Doce” for one). The vast majority of the Contras were disaffected Sandis anyway, something you’ll never hear in the mainstream media. Maybe if the Sandis had refrained from using the Soviets to further their aims as well as foment strife in El Salvador and elsewhere, Reagan wouldn’t have been so adamant about supporting the Contras.