My take is that Congress, working for the DS, was facilitating Nicaragua's communist takeover, and Reagan ignored them, or at least turned a blind eye as the military ignored them. While they didn't stop them entirely, as Nicaragua has gone back and forth since then, they meaningfully checked the DS-Communist power projection.
I think the Iranians would've got the weapons from someone anyway, and it was simply a convenient opportunity to get large amounts of untracked funds. I don't know that for a fact, but it's my guess.
In principle I agree that we shouldn't be funding foreign military or guerillas anywhere. But it was certainly an issue of coordinated encroachment funded by other nations against the U.S., and an expedient response by Reagan. It'll be great once Central Americans and other smaller countries around the world can have options beyond the extremes of a right wing military strongman or a socialist tyrant.
BTW, this also explains something I had stumbled upon when looking at the Contra briefly a while ago. Some of the names of people involved in exposing it was actually people connected to the DS. A bit like CIA MkUltra was exposed by Rockefeller commission.
Your theory explains this better. Thanks again for sharing this.
My take is that Congress, working for the DS, was facilitating Nicaragua's communist takeover, and Reagan ignored them, or at least turned a blind eye as the military ignored them. While they didn't stop them entirely, as Nicaragua has gone back and forth since then, they meaningfully checked the DS-Communist power projection.
I think the Iranians would've got the weapons from someone anyway, and it was simply a convenient opportunity to get large amounts of untracked funds. I don't know that for a fact, but it's my guess.
In principle I agree that we shouldn't be funding foreign military or guerillas anywhere. But it was certainly an issue of coordinated encroachment funded by other nations against the U.S., and an expedient response by Reagan. It'll be great once Central Americans and other smaller countries around the world can have options beyond the extremes of a right wing military strongman or a socialist tyrant.
BTW, this also explains something I had stumbled upon when looking at the Contra briefly a while ago. Some of the names of people involved in exposing it was actually people connected to the DS. A bit like CIA MkUltra was exposed by Rockefeller commission.
Your theory explains this better. Thanks again for sharing this.