Daniel Ortega returns to presidency of Nicaragua

**KukriKhan** · 01-12-2007, 14:50

I guess it was inevitable. We're pals with China, buds with Viet Nam, on speaking terms with Russia, and nodding acquaintences with Danny O. It seems Marxists have learnt to stop banging tables with their shoes, and asserting "We will bury you!"; instead offering to buy or sell stuff to us, which apparently rehabs them in the eyes of US powers-that-be.

Twenty, twenty-five years from now, I expect we'll be chumming it up with Iraq, Iran, Syria... heck maybe even a re-unified Korea (!).

Not that that's a bad thing. Just weird seeing it all unfold before my old eyes, which used to read about the evil communist conspiracy just waiting to kill us all.

**Banquo's Ghost** · 01-12-2007, 16:18

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

Twenty, twenty-five years from now, I expect we'll be chumming it up with Iraq, Iran, Syria... heck maybe even a re-unified Korea (!).

Not that that's a bad thing. Just weird seeing it all unfold before my old eyes, which used to read about the evil communist conspiracy just waiting to kill us all.

Absolutely agree. In my youth I was training to repel the communist horde of Russians, and now I'm married to one.

It just begs the question - can't we try and cut out more of the intervening killing, maiming and threatening?

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 01-12-2007, 19:54

You married a horde?

The slippery slope argument is correct!

**Blodrast** · 01-12-2007, 20:46

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

You married a horde?

The slippery slope argument is correct!

ROFL!
BG, that only proves that they improved and diversified their tactics

Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost

I suppose there's one saving grace. There's an opportunity to recapture the glory of the Reagan years and sell Iran the bomb they want in return for cash to make Ortega's life a misery again. After all, Mahmoud will be in town on Sunday.

Besides, if they sell Iran the bomb, it will be that much easier in a few years to find them WMD's - after all, they'll know exactly what they're looking for

On topic: the impact of this upcoming "alliance" on the whole of the American continent: not much, imo. They're all small players, without the capability to stir the waters (other than the domestic ones). Sure, you can expect a lot more rhetoric (anti-US) and all that crap, but it's gonna be just talk the talk, not walk the walk. As long as the US ignores them - and they can safely do so -, nothing will come out of it. If they get involved, AGAIN, repeating mistakes of the past (or, who knows, making new ones

), more scandals will ensue - but likely not much more than that.

Besides, I can definitely sympathize with the urge to set up your own puppet dictators in Central/South America - I mean, come on, you guys of all people should be able to imagine how much fun that would be, only judging by how much fun y'all have/had by instituting your own Pope in MTW/M2TW

**Ironside** · 01-13-2007, 12:37

Originally Posted by Blodrast

Besides, I can definitely sympathize with the urge to set up your own puppet dictators in Central/South America - I mean, come on, you guys of all people should be able to imagine how much fun that would be, only judging by how much fun y'all have/had by instituting your own Pope in MTW/M2TW

But population of the puppet countries seems to be more pissed off when you do this nowadays.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 01-13-2007, 16:49

Oddly enough, I somehow assumed Ortega to have been dead and buried a long time ago. Talk about a blast from the past. Next thing you know, the coming Argentine elections will be won by Evita Peron...