Daniel Ortega is back

by on November 8, 2006 at 6:08 am in Political Science | Permalink

The ever-invigorating Leiter Reports [addendum: in this case Professor Hellie] writes:

Excellent!  Daniel Ortega, a true peoples’ hero, appears poised to make his comeback.  Caveat: he used to be a Good Guy, overthrowing one of the more vicious Central American caudillos, and valiantly stood up for years against a ruinous US proxy war, dunno what he’s been up to these days.

Here is what Daniel Ortega has been up to.  His defenders may wish to note he was cleared.

jult52 November 8, 2006 at 9:02 am

The 2nd linked article doesn’t say Ortega was cleared, just that he dodged the charges and prosecution. Am I misunderstanding something?

william November 8, 2006 at 12:24 pm

Regardless of what he’s been up to since, the US proxy war was shameful.

David Andersen November 8, 2006 at 4:00 pm

Invigorating? Like a round of fecal matter to the face might be invigorating? Leiter, despite his grand academic credentials, is not much of a thinker. He might as well be writing propaganda for the People’s Party of his choice, such is the depth of his blog writing. He’s also quite fond of the phrase “War of agression on Iraq.” Is there any other kind of war? Quick, name the last three Wars of Passivism. Why oh why has the United States abandonded it’s time-honored tradition conducting Wars of Retreats?! Thanks for the reference to a blog I will not be reading for enlightenment.

John Ur November 8, 2006 at 7:49 pm

I am very interested in seeing the outcome of this election for Nicaragua. After the Sandinistas were effectively overthrown in 1990 by the US-backed Contras, governmental power has been in conservative hands. Those conservative hands were able to bring a relative stability to the economy, but have done nothing for the poor – which is to say the majority of the people. That’s why Ortega won the election – the poor = the majority and they are not afraid to vote. Whether Ortega still holds any sway after his wheelings and dealings (alluded to in the previous comments) remains to be seen. And here’s hoping that he’s learned to separate the wheat from the chaff as far as socialism is concerned.

On a sidenote, I found it interesting that the four main candidates were all from a party that was labeled either Sandinista or Liberal but that spanned the spectrum from conservative to liberal.

David Andersen November 9, 2006 at 12:58 am

“Mr. Andersen, “war of aggression” is a term of art in international law; most wars are not wars of aggression. Perhaps if you read more, and spouted off less, you might be enlightened.”

Well, I’ll just take my place at the back of the class then Mick – I stand corrected, in part. Leiter is still a hack and the war in Iraq is also not a war of aggression, as defined by ‘international law.’

I’m curious that you claim most wars are not wars of aggression. Someone starts them, no? Isn’t that the ‘aggression’ part?

zak December 9, 2006 at 9:31 pm

The people commenting here appear to be Americans, getting deice over words.
I wonder why you don’t stick to the subject.

You are apparently intelligent, except for the last guy, that can’t get it up, selling pills.

What this really amounts to, is this:
As you have said, the majority of the people are poor and want INSTANT improvements Communism “promises” this.
It’s an easy sell to the poor and it comes with a guarantee to remain poor.

The USSR, China, N. Korea, Cuba and many more bought this ideal.

I wish the people buying into this ideal could know what the poor people in those places think of being fenced-in, for about 50 years. The people of Berlin could really clue them in.

The Cubans immigrants in Florida speak Spanish. I wish they would tell the people of Nicaragua what to expect of this guy Ortega, there new “leader.”
People don’t change, he is a “commie.”
For the poor who elected Ortega, I am sad to say, but they will learn the hard way.

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