Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

U.S. boot steps on a Caribbean flea

At the end of this month, we will mark the twenty-third anniversary of a momentous American victory—a military operation that not only warmed Ronald Reagan’s cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.

Yes, I’m talking about the October 25, 1983 “liberation” of Grenada.

In March 1979, socialist leader Maurice Bishop took over Grenada in a bloodless coup. Once deemed “a lovely piece of real estate” by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, Grenada is a small East Caribbean island of some 133 square miles and 110,000 inhabitants. Half of its nationals live in Brooklyn.

The U.S. worked to destabilize the Bishop regime but he was ultimately deposed and later murdered by a group more Left than he in early October 1983. That’s when America decided to risk awakening this sleeping Caribbean flea by launching a preemptive attack.

Read all about the big boot stomp here.