John Dinges: Reagan's Wars in Central America (1982)
“I think it’s interesting to pose it from this point of view:
What would the United States do if a movement for social change arose in a Latin American country that had demonstrably no connection, of any sort, with any Socialist Bloc country? In other words, what if there was really no way you could say this is all directed from Havana, and this is all being manipulated from Moscow? Would the United States support radical social change, land reform, reorganization of the economy, disfranchisement of the class in these economies that has traditionally been arrogating to itself the enormous shares of wealth that is typical of these countries? I think the answer is obvious. The United States of course would not support that kind of revolution. The United States has never supported any kind of revolution.”
