In case you missed it elsewhere:
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 . . .
Link to Newsweek article.
Whiskey Bar does an excellent job of reminding us exactly what "the Salvador Option" means in terms of human lives - a must read. The barbarianism of people who would suggest such a strategy for winning the war in Iraq is almost beyond the grasp of my imagination.
Posted by sarah at January 10, 2005 3:54 PM | TrackBack