Honduras. and El Salvador are beginning to improve their economies. and now that their gross national products are being pushed upward. how hospitable will a Communist Central America be for investment? You will undo all the progress we have made. we will turn Central America into a basket case if we pull the plug on the Contras and let the revolution in Nicaragua consolidate itself and spread. What contribution to solving the problems of poverty and hunger will turning Central America into a giant refugee camp make? There are two bottom lines that I draw from the lessons of Vietnam. lessons we have been inundated with this month. The first is that isolationism dominates the Democratic Partys foreign policy.