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Originally Posted by raytri";p="
There's nothing particularly wrong with the concept of a training school for Western Hemisphere military officers. It's a great way to inculcate American values into foreign militaries.
The problem with the School of the Americas was that it taught some things that, perhaps, should not have been, and didn't do enough inculcating of values. So some of the graduates took their practical training back home and applied it in deplorable ways. And we turned a blind eye to the sorts of nations whose officers we were training.
But that's an argument for reform, not abolishment.
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fine in concept but not in execution. It has turned out the likes of the Guatamalan military that has carried out a decades long genocide against the Maya. It trained the Chilean military that overthrough the democratically elected Allende government. It trained the Argentine military which led to the dictatorship of the Peron's. And then they even went to war with our buddies the Brits over the Falkland Islands.
No, the School of the America's is a cancer that needs to be surgically removed. And the easiest way to do that is to cut of its funding.