From "Notes From a Subterranean Library in Oregon," a compilation of Ray Peat's newspaper letters and columns, compiled by T3Uncoupled (2023). Originally published 1986.

Ray Peat, "War unpopular", p. 57

A few years ago, when Argentina was ruled by brutal mass murderers, they were active supporters of the Reagan-Contra war against Nicaragua. Now that democracy has returned to Argentina, that country agrees with every other democracy in Latin America, and with practically every democracy in the world, that the United States should not expand the war in Central America by sending additional support to the Contras. Even dictatorships such as the Pinochet government of Chile are surprisingly reluctant to openly support Reagan’s plan for a major war. According to polls, most Americans ignore or reject the false information they are receiving from Reagan’s propagandists regarding events in Central America, and also oppose enlarging the war. Unfortunately, our U.S. Congress is humiliating itself, by allowing itself to be so evenly divided on the issue of interfering in Central America; allowing itself to be so easily manipulated by the pseudo-patriotic rhetoric coming from the White House and the State Department.