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...opposing the deployment of American troops in Lebanon. Jebsen suggests that El Salvador is different from Vietnam because it has only 5 million people, not 40 million, implying that we could "win" in El Salvador. This kind of thinking led the Reagan administration to invade the tiny island of Grenada. It is unfortunate that public opinion polls about the Grenada invasion indicate that America loves a war that...
...Senator's fear of using American power borders on the pathological. He has opposed the deployment of US troops to Grenada and Lebanon, he refuses to commit American forces directly in order to keep open the vital Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the Western world's imported oil flows, and now he wants America to abandon Central America...
Nonetheless, the ditty is on local lips more than ever these days as conversation piece and as cautionary tale. The U.S.-led invasion of Grenada last October has been followed by a sudden and sizable militarization of the six other island states in the eastern Caribbean.* The U.S. is sending $15 million in military assistance to the region this year, 75 times more than in 1981. The aid package includes machine guns, automatic rifles, grenade launchers, radio equipment, uniforms and, of course, boots. At the same time, eight-to twelve-member U.S. Army Special Forces teams have been conducting training...
...training some 80 men from each of the six islands in skills like map reading, conducting basic field operations and using the new U.S. weapons. Most of the graduates will become part of the Caribbean Peace-keeping Force, which could eventually replace the 300 U.S. troops still serving in Grenada...
...said, would be merely an extension of a 1981 regional security pact under which each of the islands agreed to provide volunteer assistance for the others in the face of such problems as hurricanes, smugglers or threats to national security. The pact was most famously invoked during the Grenada invasion, when a total of 300 police and soldiers from six islands were sent to support the 8,000 U.S. fighting troops. Champions of the proposed regional defense force insist that it would include no more than 1,000 troops, but Barbadian Brigadier Rudyard Lewis, the regional security coordinator, has already...