Reynolds didn’t link to the offending post by Justin Raimondo because

Reynolds didn’t link to the offending post by Justin Raimondo because, of course, NOTHING in it

praised the Sandinistas or any other “pure-minded agrarian reformers.” In fact, Raimondo specifically

dissed the Commies:

Che Guevara was a totalitarian thug, but I don’t recall hearing that ever did anything like cut off a

woman’s breasts. And why, pray tell, must we choose between a dead Commie and a bunch of “ex”-

fascists hustling t-shirts?

A quick search for the term “Sandinistas” on http://www.allofmbt.com turns up this first result. Some

choice snippets (and by all means, go read the whole thing if you think I’m cherrypicking):

The Sandinistas were lionized on the Left, much as Fidel Castro and his ragged guerrilla army were

upheld as the new symbols of a revolutionary generation in the heyday of the radicalized 1960s. The

repression against domestic dissidents, Miskito Indians and trade unionists, was ignored by the Left or

else rationalized as “revolutionary.” …

It is one thing to oppose whitewashing the crimes of the Sandinistas, and quite another to advocate

aiding the so-called contras – the US-supported-and-subsidized armed force that was engaged in

overthrowing them. Radosh explains his transition from a principled noninterventionist to an advocate

of contra aid as follows:

“As a result of what I observed on the trip, I eventually became a firm supporter of contra aid. While

congressional liberals were waging a campaign to cut off all such military aid, I had come to

understand that it was only the threat of a fully capable contra army that made the Sandinista leaders

even contemplate any internal loosening up.”