2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary/Reagan South American Policies are Failed Policies of the Past
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Hillary championing and trying to use the failed Central American policies of the 1980s to attack Bernie. These polices that Hillary has always stood for are exactly they type of policies Reagan championed and established in the 1980s.
These red-baiting Reagan like attacks against Bernie by Hillary and pundits on tv show they all live in an imaginary past. As if the 1980s South American Reagan polices were a smashing success. The past 20 years have proven the United States polices in South America and Central America were dismal failures. To argue, like Hillary did, that Sanders championed governments that killed, disappeared people, etc, is just dishonest. I would like to ask Hillary what was the United States doing during that time in Argentina, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia, on and on. We were in bed with right wing dictators, we helped overthrow governments, we trained (in the school of Americas)government troops that were responsible for the deaths and disappearing of thousands of people. Our own CIA helped dictators silence all detractors through all sorts of horrible actions. I would also like to ask Hillary what brought on the Cuban Revolution in the first place. It was the United States meddling and continuing corruption of the Batista regime.
Right now in Central America the people are starting to bring to justice those in government whom the United States backed with intelligence, money, and arms.
Hillary and many pundits are still fans of this type of foreign policy. They are trapped in the past. The younger generations of Americans don't want that type of foreign policy anymore! Enough of it already. Hillary is still controlled by feelings and portraits of countries that were made in the 1970s and 1980s. That type of foreign policy failed. We need to move on and no longer hold these grudges and views of South America made by war mongering right wingers. By the way Hillary's support and active participation of the coup in Honduras proves she can't let go of that Reagan philosophy.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)I thought we were way past the point when any prospective Democratic presidential nominee would seriously back the blood-stained policies of Ronald Reagan in Central America...
Hillary already helped to fuck up Honduras (as well as parts of the Middle East). She shouldn't be allowed into another position of power where she can do more damage elsewhere. THE 80's ARE OVER!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)who has gone there. Obama is so careful when he discusses Cuba. We need to get over it. We need to discuss what the US did in Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile etc.
Groundbreaking comments tonight.