"Franko" wrote in message
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Hello Harry and Jim,
None of the examples you gave qualified as "truly peaceful" nations as I
offered in my argument.
Grenada had deteriorated to the point where American citizens' lives were
endangered and no one else on Grenada or in the world would take
responsibility for protecting them. So we sent in Clint Eastwood...

Franko......You've got to be kidding me.....Little tiny Grenada, with a
population of less than 75,000 people was a danger to the United States of
America!!! Grenada was a danger to no one at all! I was there in the
early 1980's and Grenada was a very laid back and peaceful country and then
the US Forces decided to invade. The people of Grenada had voted to have a
socialist government and had invited some Cuban advisers to come for a
visit. Is this the reason that the USA invaded Grenada and installed a
parliament under the CIA? It had nothing to do with Grenada being a threat
to the USA.

Jim Carter
Bayfield

Hello Jim,

No, I wasn't kidding. In my previous post, I wrote, "Grenada had
deteriorated to the point where American citizens' lives were endangered and
no one else on Grenada or in the world would take responsibility for
protecting them. So we sent in Clint Eastwood..."

How did US citizens come under threat?

Grenada was taken over by a Marxist military council (as in Cuban-backed
revolutionary) on October 19, 1983 after a bloody coup (yes, you could
stretch that to be some kind of vote).

The Marxist junta, who "invited" Cuban advisers to come for a visit, were
apparently encouraging (by its inaction) rampaging mobs to roam the country
side which eventually led to the US citizens being threatened with no
assurance or response that they would be kept safe (as the previous
government in power had done so all those pre-coup years).

To send a signal to Cuba and the USSR that they should not be meddling in
the Caribbean, the island was invaded within the week by the US with the
help from other Caribbean nations. There were US, Cuban and Grenadan
casualties. The revolutionaries were rounded up with hundreds of Cuban
advisers. Free elections were reinstituted the following year and Grenada
has since been a peaceful nation...again.

To the victor, the spoils... plus pro-victor history books...

Franko

"Jim Carter" wrote in message
...

"Franko" wrote in message
...
Hello Harry and Jim,
None of the examples you gave qualified as "truly peaceful" nations as I
offered in my argument.
Grenada had deteriorated to the point where American citizens' lives
were
endangered and no one else on Grenada or in the world would take
responsibility for protecting them. So we sent in Clint Eastwood...

Franko......You've got to be kidding me.....Little tiny Grenada, with a
population of less than 75,000 people was a danger to the United States of
America!!! Grenada was a danger to no one at all! I was there in the
early 1980's and Grenada was a very laid back and peaceful country and
then
the US Forces decided to invade. The people of Grenada had voted to have
a
socialist government and had invited some Cuban advisers to come for a
visit. Is this the reason that the USA invaded Grenada and installed a
parliament under the CIA? It had nothing to do with Grenada being a
threat
to the USA.

Jim Carter
Bayfield