CAFTA: Preventing War (Right Wing Bussiness fucko's interpretation of it)


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Topic: Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus
User: "The Court Fool"
Date: 02 Jul 2005 09:46:27 AM
Object: CAFTA: Preventing War (Right Wing Bussiness fucko's interpretation of it)
Truth of the matter is, ***** heads, there are winners and losers in all
free trade deals. ***** you.
Preventing War
Free Trade: Rep. James Moran leans left and serves a large
Salvadoran-American constituency. He's also a serious man who
recognizes a growing potential for instability and conflict in the
Americas. The Democrat from Virginia supports the Central America Free
Trade Agreement. Unlike most in his party, Moran knows this isn't
"Bush's" treaty. It's America's long-term interest no matter who's in
office 10 years from now. It's about much more than just trade.

From his point of view, it's something very unlike what Democrats see

as the Bush approach to national security. Rather than a cold war, a
hot war or a pre-emptive war, CAFTA is about preventing war. This trade
pact will give struggling Central American and Caribbean states a
fighting chance to develop into prosperous democracies through access
to markets.
CAFTA would also let these governments beat off the snares of crime,
foreign meddling and populism, all tangible threats to vulnerable
states that history shows can lead to growing prospects of fighting the
atrocious wars of the 1980s all over again.
The states in this alliance are very different. Costa Rica is a
respected old democracy. Nicaragua is an extremely fragile state under
political siege. El Salvador is a rising star that has transformed
itself on belief in free markets. Dominican Republic has been knocked
flat by corruption and is trying to get up. Guatemala is making baby
steps of progress.
Every single one will be better off with the certainty of CAFTA.
Two decades ago, nearly all of them were awash in war. Communist
guerrillas were poised to take control of the region. Today, there are
many success stories, such as El Salvador's, but no nation is
bulletproof. There are vulnerabilities that will grow if CAFTA is not
passed. For starters, this is an era of illegal immigration.
Instability exacerbates it.
"If Central America does not have the capability to generate jobs, we
are not going to be able to stop this," warned President Tony Saca of
El Salvador in a Los Angeles speech last month.
Discouragement over lack of opportunity is a hornet's nest of
opportunity for demagogues. In El Salvador, Schafik Handal, a far-left
dinosaur, is on the rise among some voters who see no future.
Handal hangs out with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and the sort who
itch to topple governments, again and again, Bolivia-style, until they
get the dictator they want, irrespective of what the voters choose.
In Nicaragua, the danger is even more real, with Daniel Ortega, the
loser of the Contra War, now politically manipulating courts to
paralyze Nicaragua's president, Enrique Bolanos, because Bolanos
prosecuted corruption. Ortega is detested in Nicaragua and cannot win
power honestly through elections, but nevertheless has been able to
amass power at the expense of democracy.
Every one of these issues is rooted in poverty and isolation, the same
fate Democrats would condemn these countries to if they have their way
and quash CAFTA. It's a step downward, if that can be believed, from
their views about the region 25 years ago.
Back in the 1980s, many Democrats seemed sympathetic to the Nicaraguan
Sandinistas, but were right to recognize that war in itself is an
enemy. We all know of war's potential to rob a region of decades of
development. Its capacity to create dictators. Its killing of
innocents, its inevitable lies, its brutalization of survivors and its
tendency to spill over borders.
Those who have spent time in the region or who know Central American
immigrants know what's at stake now. Just talk to people even on the
democratic left in Central America to know that CAFTA is supported by
countries that want peace and hated by totalitarians on the fringe. And
if this trade treaty doesn't pass, things may go very wrong in that
region. Again.
The best way to stop it dead is CAFTA.
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