BARNEs in the newspaper refer to the HamiltonBarnes amendment as the "new Monroe Doctrine." I ransacked my history books. to try to find what the heck the Monroe Doctrine means. because I always understood it was to keep foreign countries out of this hemisphere. whereas this amendment. the approach being used by the gentleman on the left. is to keep them into this hemisphere. exactly the opposite. This amendment does positive harm. It ought to be called the Refugee Incentive Act of 1985. because it says to the Contras fighting for their own homeland. "Abandon your homeland and we will give you a bowl of rice. we will give you a blanket." It is time somebody asked: Just where do we stand in the ferocious struggle of our time between the two great alternative faiths. freedom or communism? I have heard laughter and derision and slander about the Contras. that they are terrorists. they are butchers. they are rapists. You know. it is easy to demonize people that you oppose.
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Demonizing the Contras as terrorists, butchers, and rapists.