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You've been reading too many Tom Clancy novels.
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala are and always have been impoverished third world countries with **** poor economies and no effective militaries. They were never any threat to us. Giving terrorists in those countries arms and money didn't make America safer. Calling them "freedom fighters" doesn't make them our friends any more than it did when we were supplying arms to the mujahideen in Afghanistan, and look how that turned out. When is the US going to learn to mind its own business?
North violated the law, pure and simple. He's no patriot - he's a criminal. And even if you view North as a fine patriot, why pick him to lead a 2nd Amendment rights organization? What upside is there to picking such a polarizing figure? We couldn't find anyone qualified who didn't have a felony conviction in his past?
You could argue that my truck is not a threat. Now, load up a nuclear bomb. Are you still going to tell us it isn't a threat?
Similarly. None of the central American countries were ever threats in and if themselves. As client states of the USSR how many Russian troops who could drive, not swim, to our border does it take to be a threat in your reckoning? Would Mexico stop them? Don't make me fall off my chair laughing.