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...primary reasons for this continuing abuse of human rights lies in the covert nature of the violations--most of the abuses involve secret arrests or deliberate cover-ups. We must take some of the blame, however, for not taking united, direct action to countermand such terrorists acts in other countries...
...Covert operations go better when they remain covert. Yet U.S. funding and CIA direction of the contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua have long been among Washington's most openly debated topics. It has been no secret either that the CIA has been funneling arms and supplies to the fighters in Afghanistan who have been battling the five-year-old Soviet occupation. The clandestine supply route through Pakistan has been widely reported. The U.S. Senate even voted unanimously last Oct. 3 to approve a resolution declaring that "it would be indefensible to provide the freedom fighters with only...
...definition subversive," he writes, while democracy "treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles." The fundamental difference between the systems renders democracies inherently less capable than totalitarian regimes of defending themselves against internal enemies. That fact, he says, is ruthlessly exploited by the Soviets in their covert encouragement of global terrorism...
...fraternity of outlaw nations. Even while the United States was giving Nicaragua economic aid, the Sandinistas were deciding to align themselves with the soviets, engage in an unprecendented military buildup, and spread their revolution to El Salvador. Their revolutionary position predates by far the Reagan Administration's efforts at covert...
...would be faced with a severly destabilizing nuclear threat from Cuba. Indeed, the folloy of this legalistic position becomes quite evident when you realize that it would make the courageous actions of President Kennedy into the crimes of an outlaw state. In the same way, the covert war and the mining of Nicaragua's harbors are legally indefensible, but vitally necessary actions in our policy toward the Sandinistas. It was only through these "illegal" pressures that the Sandinistas decided to negotiate, and even agree to the Contadora accord. While one may consider the Administration foolish for not taking them...