| Or the possibilities of what can be lost in the region in terms of semi-democratic states such as Chile, Peru, Columbia, Argentina etc. If the communist leaning states are able to get a reliable allie (China) to supply a covert arming of Marxist Guerilla movements into other countries. Ala Che.
The former Soviet and Warsaw pact countries aren't reliable. They aren't for the most part solvent enough to support a guerilla war/wars in this hemisphere. Nor do I imagine they care. China can and might.
You are old enough to remember Daniel Ortega's first go around as El Presidente of Nicaruaga.So you should remember how his Sandinista movement moved through-out Central America. Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Chiapas. And the expense incurred both in world opinion and national prestige that the US suffered.
The question now is do we want that to happen again. If not then we say nothing to China and the tin pot commies down south and hope we don't see red bandannas and AK toting, sandel wearing members of some jacked up Peoples Liberation Army del Mexico on the Rio Bravo.
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Col. Oliver North USMC
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