Charles B writes: >Oh I think you are asking me do I mean Carter did it on purpose, as
affirmatively trying to help the Sandinistas. No. I just mean he hesitated.
He didn't send in troops as in Guatemala in 1954 or the Dominican Republic
in 1965...<
Eric Chester's great book on the Dominican Republic intervention (Monthly Review press) shows that Johnson "hesitated" before sending in the Marines. He tried a lot of other tactics and then sent them in when those failed. Carter also followed that strategy. I think the problem was that he "misunderestimated" the situation in Nicaragua (to use a word coined by our current Fearless and Peerless Leader).
Jim Devine
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