Ronald Reagan Was A Bad President

I hope both of us have a fun andinteresting time debating. My first argument will deal with Ronald Reagans foreignpolicy and how during his term or more popularly called "The ReaganEra" his foreign policy caused terror, murder and ruined a lot of smallerinnocent countries all while supporting groups and terror organizations aroundthe world. My first detail will be on the Nicaraguan Revolution and howReagan supported the "Contras" group, which committed horrendousatrocities to the Nicaraguan people and country as a whole. For more info onthe Nicaraguan Revolution, I would suggest reading the Wikipedia article on thesubject. Anyway, the Contras were a Reagan funded paramilitary group thatfought against the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) during theRevolution. Their group carried tons of human’s rights abuses some of which areof the following. . Targeted health care clinics and health care workers forassassination . Kidnapping civilians . Torturing civilians . Executing civilians, including children, who were capturedin combat . Raping women . Indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian houses . Seizing civilian property . Burning civilian houses in captured towns All of these were reported by the Humans Right Watch, andall of these were ignored until a bill passed in congress banning US involvementwith the Contras after the International Court of Justice (Nicaragua v. UnitedStates) ruled Nicaragua the victor in a human’s rights court case. Even afterUS involvement was banned, Reagan scandalously and illegally continued to fundthe Contras group (I believe it was with taxpayer money, but I could be wrong). Not only was this move on Reagan part wrong, it caused the lives of many Nicaraguansto be lost, all so Reagan could prevent a minor socialist revolution in LatinAmerica. If this is not cruelty, then I don’t know what is. s://upload. wikimedia. org. .. ; alt="" width="306" height="191" /> Reagan funded paramilitary soldiers, the Contras. I have already stated one fact as to how Reagan funded aviolent murderous anti-socialist insurgency and I will give you an example ofyet another example of Reagan funding a terrorist organization all for thereason of his personal anti-communist conservative fear. It all started in Afghanistanduring the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan had the US personally fund,arm and train a militant Islamic insurgency group (Mujahedeen) that would latergo on to start the terrorist organization known as the Taliban. The insurgents eventually pushed out the USSR through theuse of bombings, torture and other various forms of urban, mountain and desertguerilla warfare. While the Soviets did there far share of wartime crimesduring the Soviet/Afghan invasion, it pales in comparison to the crimes thatthe Taliban would later go on to commit on US civilians and soldiers. There are many other examples of the Reagan Doctrine ruiningcountries and there inhabitants, but the list would be far too long and I can’teven dream of writing it all. I would also like to apologize for my lack ofnumbers next to my sources; I got kind of lazy I have to admit. If you have anyquestions about the accuracy of my arguments, feel free to address them and I willtry to answer as best I can. I look forward to your counter argument my friend. Sources. . http://en.wikipedia.org.... . http://en.wikipedia.org... . . http://en.wikipedia.org.... . http://en.wikipedia.org.... . http://www.examiner.com.... . http://thinkprogress.org...