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Even if Jebsen's scenario is correct, and U.S. military withdrawal does lead to an El Salvador controlled by a Soviet-backed regime, the question is how bad would that be? Jebsen suggests that El Salvador is different from Vietnam because it is closer to home. But Cuba is only 90 miles from the American shore, and although it has been a Communist state for twenty-five years. American children still aren't taught in Russian. Jebsen says El Salvador is of strategic importance, but this simply isn't the case. El Salvador itself is of no military importance...
...criminals will always get weapons, and therefore, gun control will only keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Unfortunately the facts don't support his theory. Just as the guns that are owned by our upright citizens are often used against them, the rebels in El Salvador capture much of their artillery from supplies that the U.S. sends to the Salvadoran government...
...unwillingness to use force, but rather a feeling that all problems have military solutions. Jebsen tries to cloud his arguments in a tone of reasonableness, but we should be wary of a man who faults someone for 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...
This was the first debate since the already-infamous WBZ-TV interviews last week in which some of the candidates could not answer questions such as "Who is Israel's prime minister?" and "Whom does the U.S. support in Nicaragua and El Salvador?" Turner asked Bartley, who was embarrassed when he could not answer any of the four questions on last Monday's broadcast, what he thought of the questions' "fairness...
Central America. Hart's policy can basically be summed up by an antiwar slogan from the 1960s: "Out Now." He calls for the "immediate withdrawal" of all troops from the region, and he would simply cu off U.S. military aid to El Salvador unti all death-squad activity ceased. Mondale would link U.S. aid to El Salvador to progress on land reform and an end to the death squads. He would continue the U.S. efforts to interdict the flow of arms from Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels, but unlike President Reagan, he would not back the contras against...