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This all-or-nothing strategy of military action has encouraged the United States to undertake easy battles in Grenada and Panama and to fight a more challenging (and still mostly successful) war in the Persian Gulf...
Criticizing American support for military action in Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua and Iraq, Carter pointed out that "in none of these cases was Camp David or any other venue used to avoid conflict...
...rally listening to a fledgling neo-Nazi discuss with a robed Klansman the religious primacy of the white race. A few steps away, a young Kluxer-in- training, his eyes peering out through slits in his hood, explains the history of a camouflaged Klanmobile, a trashed-out Ford Grenada loaded with ham-radio equipment and emblazoned with slogans like WHITE POWER and PRAISE GOD FOR AIDS...
...Aristide. Unnamed officials smugly told The Washington Post last week: "What incentive do we have to help Haiti? What for? What U.S. interest?" Too bad Cedras is not a communist and Aristide a little more moderate--better yet, an oil mogul of some sort. Then Haiti would get a Grenada or Kuwait invasion...
...days after the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, we invaded Grenada, a tiny, tiny island whose exact problems and import to the world are still entirely mysterious. But it was 1983, the economy was recovering, and the fiasco in Lebanon was not that big a problem. A few thousand American troops, a few casualties, one terrible Clint Eastwood movie...