[doug from upland]

It was the height of the Cold War. Fidel Castro was causing trouble in Central America and trying to export weapons, guerillas, and grief everywhere he could in the region. The left always mocks the Grenada invasion. It was in our interest, it protected Americans, it insured freedom, and it prevented a Soviet base on the island capable of landing their aircraft, weapons, and supplies.

[maica]

"...and it prevented a Soviet base on the island capable of landing their aircraft, weapons, and supplies. "

The Soviets with Cuban 'workers' were also building a sub pen on the southern end of the island. I am not sure how close to operational state it was in 1983. It was under construction, along with the airport runway when I was there in 1979. Grenada would have been such a strategic location for patrolling and controlling sealanes to the Panama Canal and to the Gulf of Mexico.

Our leftist press was so busy siding with the communists in central America that they never wanted Americans to know what President Reagan had really accomplished and why he did it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks Doug!

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