Post: Reagan is arming Mex cartels
The Washington Post 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;
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
Racist Leftists piss me off.
Category: Media
Unlike the current batch of Republicans, Reagan was THE MAN.
If only we had another one.
What about all the South Korean K400 Series we see in Mexican Police pictures as recovered? Or the British L2A1’s and South African M84 40mm HE Goldtops?
Oh thats right, got to blame Reagan for everything
“Racist Leftists piss me off.”
It’s the WaPo, what else is new?
Just goes to show that when it comes to blaming previous administrations for current fuckups, there is no statute of limitations on blaming Republicans. Obama will be blaming Bush for the Democrats failures until 1-20-13, and then forevermore on the rubber chicken circuit.
Reagan’s unforgivable sin was winning the Cold War. That really pissed off the left, how can no one see that ending support for “wars of liberation” was just unconscionable, at least to the left. Why, the world would have been so better balanced if only the Communists had managed to stay in power and “balance” the evils of our capitalist system. That’s why they love them some Obama. HE’s doing the work that has to be done.
But I have no doubt that these were bought at local gunshows, via the ‘gun show loophole’ we hear about.
That’s how I get all my Claymores.
174. BC:
I think Brown is a poor candidate, but better than Coakley. Joe is the candidate that should have been backed. Perhaps in future races we will look closer at candidates and support.. even the Indenpendents fully.. because we need to change the way our country is run. Sounds simple huh.. the people in Washington are acting like a little highschool clique . A clique that excludes the voters!! Yet, we keep electing them
is it revive dead posts with… i got nothing, but there are a few dead posts being revived today