Word: dictatorship
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...valuable to a great power as a staging point; in this respect it resembled, if anything, other useful dots on the map like Iwo Jima in 1945 or Diego Garcia today). And the only parallel to Afghanistan is that there too a superpower threw out a bloody and brutal dictatorship. In Afghanistan, however, the Soviets installed an equally bloody and brutal substitute, and have spent the past four years killing Afghans to keep it in power...
...invasion. I think we'll be leaving a democratic government in place. One thing that's interesting about what the medical students have to say is that the Grenadians seem to be kind of happy that we are coming in. It seems an end to a very nasty military dictatorship...
...quite reassuring to people like the Egyptians who are internally vulnerable. Also, I don't think we squandered moral capital. I think that that was the fundamental moral thing to do to save American lives, to restore democracy to a very small country that was falling under a brutal dictatorship. I'm not defending our policy towards Haiti. The questions is our policy towards Grenada. I don't think that we lost a substantial moral position that we have...
...than places like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really are the equivalent of the Afghan puppet regime or the Polish dictatorship, then how to thwart or evict them becomes are reasonable question. If, however, they are involved with--but not controlled by--the Soviet Union, then confrontation may drive them irreversibly into the Soviet camp. Consider, for example, Fider Castro...
...Sandinista revolution and that only 3% are former members of Somoza's National Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N. named Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, former president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce, as its president and commander in chief...