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Sunday, January 09, 2005

The Salvador Option

Newsweek reports that the administration is considering "the Salvador Option" (emphasis mine):
Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is.

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Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras.)
Just great. We're creating another monster. What a surprise.

2 Comments:

  • Scuttle our democracy? What the fuck are you talking about? When have any of the Iraqi's tried to scuttle our democracy. Was Oscar Romero trying to scuttle democracy when he was murdered by CIA backed death squads in El Salvador? How the fuck will this ever bring peace?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at January 13, 2005 11:10 PM  

  • Oh yes and one more thing. 911 was a foggy soupy blend made by the punch press of knockoff look and act alikes in the mideast. They came here knucklehead on 911 to attack us or perhaps you were playing with your Ken doll, ooops sorry GI Joe that day. Run for cover. Another thing, understand the word "fuck" you illiterate prosthesis.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at January 15, 2005 4:34 PM  

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