YES, THAT’S A BLOGAD FOR Contra Café over on the right. But they didn’t buy it in response to my post — I gave ’em a freebie after seeing the folks at antiwar.com go crazy over my earlier mention of them. I should’ve held out for a free t-shirt, at least.
Yes, I realize that I’m not properly monetizing InstaPundit. But it’s fun!
UPDATE: Reader Stephen Schwartz emails:
Pretty interesting how Dennis Raimondo, allegedly the only real conservative in America, has suddenly signed on to recycling idiotic propaganda against the contras — quoting old and thoroughly discredited Sandinista crap.
Someone needs to point out to him that the “terrorists” won the election in Nicaragua in 1990 and have never held power since.
Dennis being a person who only knows other countries via his computer, it wouldn’t be of interest to him to read the serious literature about Nicaragua and the outcome of Sandinista rule there. For example, this:
I detect a parallel here.
The American radical left took to referring to the anti-Soviet Afghans as “Afghan contras,” and then called the Kosovars “Albanian contras,” since both groups had the bad taste to join the original Nicaraguan contras in refusing domination by atheist totalitarians. So now, according to Dennis “The Jews Did It, Everywhere” Raimondo, the Iraqi Shias are also “contras.”
Some of us in San Francisco always believed that Dennis, like is associate Bill White, was a radical leftist posing as a conservative to get an audience. Now more than ever, that seems logical. I guess next Dennis will accuse Reagan of being a terrorist.
Yeah, the refrain’s a familiar one, since it’s always the same: Our guys are the bad guys, the only atrocities are by our guys, the murderous thugs our guys oppose are actually pure-minded agrarian reformers, and the U.S. is wrong and should get out. That’s the story from these guys every single time. I can’t pretend to take it seriously any more — and, of course, I never took Raimondo seriously. Nor do many others.