Christian Science Monitor: The US Has Backed the [Death Squad] Forces of Moderation

Horhey · Sep 11, 2012

It's like it was written by psyops officer:

The Christian Science Monitor: Duarte's Day

WHEN President Reagan and other top officials confer today with Salvadorean President Jose Napoleon Duarte, a whiff of optimism ought to be in the air. El Salvador is the one region in Central America in which United States policies clearly have been successful. The US has backed the forces of moderation..The Salvadorean Army, formerly known for spending an inordinate amount of time in its barracks, has become a well-honed and aggressive fighting force.
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I almost hesitate to counter it with anything but since it's from the Editors own newspaper:

The Christian Science Monitor: Following US strategy isolates Duarte at home

Duarte continues in office only because powerful forces in the military and the right need him to convince the US Congress to continue aid. Tragically, the very kind of help Washington has been giving erodes Duarte's domestic political support. He accepted the White House strategy that came with the aid: a military, not a political solution, to the war and economic austerity, not government spending, on reform.

The US-backed counterinsurgency strategy of air assaults, bombing, and forced relocation of rebel supporters (Operation Phoenix) improved army efficiency and reversed its deteriorating position.

Frustration that Duarte was refusing to negotiate a political solution to the war gradually turned to anger in late 1985 and early 1986 when Duarte adopted a Washington-supported austerity program. This ground land reform to a halt and forced his backers to hold the line on wages and salaries while prices increased. When peasant and labor organizations protested, the government reacted with force. The arrests, torture, and disappearances outraged Duarte's former supporters. Strikes and demonstrations increased.

Duarte is concerned that he will lose his slim leverage with the military and the right without massive doses of US aid. Yet it is the US strategy he has been faithfully following that has made him so dependent on this leverage by isolating him from his power base at home.

Although Duarte desperately needs the aid that Washington is providing, it is the people of El Salvador who continue to pay the real costs of his dependency.
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Horhey · Sep 11, 2012

In case anyone hasnt noticed yet. The editors of all the major newspapers have supported every single US intervention (including coups and support for terror states), no matter how controversial and gory since...probably the very first one. Certainly since the end of the second World War.

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