I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
I am interested to know what life was like from the words of people who were still children then or they were from 16-30 years old.
Politics was sanitized.
Iran and Iraq fought a brutal war in the 80’s. Absolutely awful, chemical weapons, child soldiers, human wave attacks.
The US was supporting Iraq with Intelligence and selling weapons. Except we were also selling weapons on the down low to Iran.
Congress had banned the executive from supporting anti communist militias in central America. They were psychotic zealots. They burned churches because the priest said the peasants should have rights. They used assassination, torture, and mass rape indiscriminately. The most evil people you can imagine, but they were against the left so the CIA couldn’t keep their hands to themselves.
They sold weapons to Iran that was fighting a hot war with our ally Iraq to use the money to fund the Contras in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Oliver North went to prison. Reagan and his Vice president, Bush, denied knowing anything about it. (Bush was the former head of the CIA)
Bush pardoned North after he was elected in 88. North went on to become the head of the NRA and funnel millions of dollars into supporting Republican campaign funds.
The violence in Central America continued to simmer until it burst into flame again in 2014 and led to a refugee crisis under Obama.
The chickens always come home to roost.