Is Russia Really The Baddie?

[Lauren Johnson]

Walking away from the addictive illusions of righteous violence can be devastating. I was in Nicaragua 25 years ago on a church mission to help rebuild from Hurricane Mitch devastation. We were working in a small village building cement block houses. We were certainly on the latafundia from the Somoza years. These were Sandinista families that benefited from land reforms. One woman had torn open a bag of USAID corn that had to last her and her children for 2 months. It was wet and it had worms in it. She was drying it out and picking out the worms. These were the people we were trying to kill -- subsistence peasants.

Thanks for your story. BTW did your job keep you busy rigging parachutes? I mean you weren't supporting the airborne invasion of Normandy.