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Chapter One Hundred and Eight
"If there's one thing that makes me proud to be an American, it is our national resolve. But in the wake of the Vietnam War, our national resolve was shaken-we have committed ourselves to defending South Vietnam from Communism, and we believed that we have achieved peace.
"But all of our sacrifices, to end the Viet Cong, have been beside the point-so long as there was a Communist regime training and arming these terrorists throughout the region, there would still be Communist terror in the region. We learned that the hard way in `75.
"Sandinista regime is now training and arming terrorists in its neighboring states-and these arms are not made in Nicaragua, however, but in East Germany, and the Soviet Union itself. They are a manifestation of enemy powers expanding into our hemisphere.
"We have reached a point now, where we must decide whether we are to defend the people of the America's, or weather we are to leave them to fight for themselves. As other Presidents have done in the past, we must resolve to take action and liberate the people of Nicaragua from Communism!"
-James Buckley (1983)
"But all of our sacrifices, to end the Viet Cong, have been beside the point-so long as there was a Communist regime training and arming these terrorists throughout the region, there would still be Communist terror in the region. We learned that the hard way in `75.
"Sandinista regime is now training and arming terrorists in its neighboring states-and these arms are not made in Nicaragua, however, but in East Germany, and the Soviet Union itself. They are a manifestation of enemy powers expanding into our hemisphere.
"We have reached a point now, where we must decide whether we are to defend the people of the America's, or weather we are to leave them to fight for themselves. As other Presidents have done in the past, we must resolve to take action and liberate the people of Nicaragua from Communism!"
-James Buckley (1983)
- Israel
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