They say "learn the lessons of Vietnam in Central America." The lesson of Vietnam is that you have to be behind your troops when they are fighting in combat. You have to have the will. the will to assert your national interest. And communism means refugees. I have heard the argument made that we are trying to inject racism into this argument. There was no bombing in Cuba when 1 million of them. 1 million Cuban refugees swam across the sea to get here. We have 500.000 Salvadorans here now. And I am suggesting to you that if we turn Central America over to become a Soviet beachhead through Cuba. through Nicaragua and then El Salvador. then Honduras. then Costa Rica. then Guatemala. you have not dreamed of the refugee problem that you will have in this country from. not illegal aliens. not undocumented workers. but refugees by definition who are entitled to all of the welfare benefits that this country bestows. as rightly they should. on refugees. Now we have a choice. We are either going to continue covert aid until the Nicaraguans stop exporting subversion. killing. ammunition. weapons. training. subversive command and control to bleeding El Salvador. we are going to extract a price from them by saying "the Contras are still going to give you trouble in your own country unless you stop exporting trouble to your neighbors." But once Nicaragua stops exporting subversion. the President or the OAS.
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