Your support/not support almost assuredly didn't materially change Latin America, agreed there (mine either for that matter). I think that would apply to most of the topics we discuss on this board, we're just a couple of folks exchanging ideas for our own sake (I find it beneficial and I hope others do as well).
Seems like another in a long line of 'lesser-evil' or trolley-problem type questions. And personally I'm pretty comfortable picking the 'lesser' in such situations, I can understand why someone thinking the Contras/Sandinistas were comparable and thus not want to choose, but I'm a bit surprised if you say that the Contras were far and away worse, you're not comfortable with a lesser-evilist approach taking the Sandinistas 'side' (through the very distant action of voicing moderate 'support' on a Jazz internet board of all things).
Anywho, One Brow, I enjoy discussing topics with you and I thought you should know that