A "good" model?

From the BBC article

"Of the memories of death and mutilation I witnessed in El Salvador, the sight of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her 16-year-old daughter with their brains blown across the neatly cropped lawn of their house, is the one that still haunts the most.

They were among the country's leading intellectuals, and I knew them well.

They were murdered by an elite US-trained unit, part of an extermination list approved by the high command, a dirty war taken to the limit.

The failure of US strategy in El Salvador is perhaps measured by its inability in 12 years to capture or kill a single top guerrilla commander in a country only the size of Belgium.

In the end, years more bloodshed and a potentially humiliating US defeat were only prevented by the Soviet collapse, which pulled the rug from under the guerrillas' feet. "

 

http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/f-14-08.htm

 

What absolutely Leftist-sympathizing rubbish.

 

What absolutely Leftist-sympathizing rubbish. </font>[/QUOTE]Actually, you are right here. Much like we did with Iraq, we were supporting a brutal dictator who was more than capable of butchering the insurgents.

 

KenH
That's actually Tom Gibb who was a BBC correspondent in El Salvador in the 80's speaking and not me.