There is a vote in June for a bill de-authorizing the School of the Americas. Hopefully this will shut down this Gestapo Training Academy for good.

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I think more has come back to bite us in the butt training people from other countries than any good it has ever done for us.

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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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with the school of Americas is that much of its alumni go back and join the dirty wars in which thousands of civilians are killed or tortured. Its why people like Chavez are so popular and our name is mud in South America.

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I'd heard that it closed down years ago, then got resurrected as a tame version; the School of the Americas in its old form is now in Costa Rica, quite out of the reach of our legislators but nonetheless under the purview of the U.N.

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The school of Americas has nothing to do with the UN. Its a American military institution. Its possible that there is a seperate group with that name, but its not this one. The US military school never has shut down.

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Continue to spend your tax dollars training repressive military regimes and you will continue to create the Chavez's you hate so much. This is another war we are losing and the School of the Americas is one of the key reasons. Not to mention the drug wars, the economic policies, the meddling, and all the other reasons Latin America hates the US.

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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.

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The name changed along the way. Kinda Orwellian, change the name to something benign rather than change the evil. But maybe that part was rendered to Costa Rica. The US can get away with a lot of dirty deeds by hiding in other countries.

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