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A reader writes
Hey, Joe. How about addressing indications that the Bush Administration has employed the "Salvador" strategy to train death squads to take out militia leaders?
I certainly hope so. If ever there was an appropriate circumstance for covert action--in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere--it is the effort to find and eliminate terrorists. They really are the enemy, you know.
Update and Correction: I should be more specific here. I am completely in favor of using covert U.S. assets to eliminate known terrorists. I am not in favor of training Iraqis for covert actions, since--as several readers have pointed out--we'd be taking sides in a civil war, although I am open to using carefully chosen Afghan assets to take covert action against the Taliban and Al Qaeda networks.
I am also--and this may shock some people--opposed to killing nuns, and to the actions of the right-wing death squads in El Salvador.
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