{"id":2403,"date":"2003-05-13T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/alls-well-that-ends-well\/"},"modified":"2003-05-13T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T21:03:38","slug":"alls-well-that-ends-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/13\/alls-well-that-ends-well\/","title":{"rendered":"All’s well that ends well"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tCommenting on the Totten piece that went from blog musing<\/a> to WSJ Op-Ed<\/a>, Sarge points out<\/a> the salutary effects of the often-maligned US intervention in Latin America:<\/p>\n

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…despite all the issues the left has with the “Contras” it was because of their pressure that Nicaragua today is a Constitutional Republic. In all of Latin America, there is only one remaining dictatorship, that favorite of the left, Cuba. All the others became Democratic as a direct result of policies set in motion against the will (and, in some instances, the law) of the Liberal establishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So yes, there was a great deal of hand-wringing at the time over the Contras and the Allende business in Chile, but seen in the grand historical context, the US did push Latin America toward liberal democracy. In other words, we won the Cold War, and that’s been good for the whole world, even if some of the battles were messy. But that’s war, isn’t it?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commenting on the Totten piece that went from blog musing to WSJ Op-Ed, Sarge points out the salutary effects of the often-maligned US intervention in Latin America: …despite all the issues the left has with the “Contras” it was because of their pressure that Nicaragua today is a Constitutional Republic. In all of Latin America, … Continue reading “All’s well that ends well”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-CL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}