Chavez Victory: Defeat for Bush Policy

[Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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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CB: Carter's hesitation was bigger , since he didn't send in the Marines at
all.

Carter seems to be misunderestimating in Venezuela , now.