Twisted History of the El Salvadoran Conflict
Gee, what a surprise, a one-sided article in the Washington Post about the 70's and 80's conflict in El Salvador. Of course attrocities were only committed by the anti-communist forces, never by the guerrilla forces...right!
Liberals love revisionist history and will go out of their way to find people to confirm their prejudice. Note how this article begins with what was probably the worst attrocity committed by the pro-government, anti-communist troops, in the entire war, and then carefully balances the report by not citing a single attrocity perpetrated by the "heroic" guerrilla forces.
Oh! Thats right, the guerrillas never commit attrocities, only Americans and their allies can do that. I keep forgetting that we are always the bad guy, whether the enemy is communist guerrillas in El Salvador or Islamic terrorists in Iraq. Our enemies are always noble "freedom fighters," and Americans and our allies are always "oppressors" bent on smothering the poor and disadvantaged.
Leftist in the press are so predictable as to be boring. We are always wrong and the bad guys are always right (or should I say, "Left"). Somehow America, the nation to which most the world's people either seek to emulate or seek to gain entry to; the most prosperous, egalatarian, free nation on Earth is always wrong, an oppressor, murderous, and anti-freedom. It is always those who fight against us who are the noble oppressed people who only want freedom for themselves.
Somehow these "noble people" always wind up being part of the most pernicious, evil, murderous, and oppressive movements. This is of course because instead of telling them the truth, that one has to strive to attain wealth and freedom, they are told by those movements a utopian lie. Just support the Communists, and you will be "free" and "equal" They can't tell them the truth; that "freedom" means living as their masters tell them to live, and equal means levelling society to the lowest common denominator of society.
Yep just another anti-American propaganda piece form the Washington Post...Ho-hum, what a bore...
Former Salvadoran Foes Share Doubts on WarWell, you have to give the Post one thing, they are consistent in their hatred of all things American. Once more we are given a twisted, pro-Leftist propaganda piece about the Cold war and the fight against the failed and deadly threat of Communism.
Fifteen Years Later, Problems of Poverty Remain at Forefront
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, January 29, 2007; Page A01
SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador -- José Wilfredo Salgado says he collected baby skulls as trophies in the 1980s, when he fought as a government soldier in El Salvador's civil war. They worked well as candleholders, he recalls, and better as good-luck charms.
In the most barbaric chapters of a conflict that cost more than 75,000 lives, he enthusiastically embraced the scorched-earth tactics of his army bosses, even massacres of children, the elderly, the sick -- entire villages.
It was all in the name of beating back communism, Salgado, now the mayor of San Miguel, said he remembers being told.
But as El Salvador commemorates the 15th anniversary of the war's end this month, Salgado is haunted by doubts about what he saw, what he did and even why he fought. A 12-year U.S.-backed war that was defined at the time as a battle over communism is now seen by former government soldiers such as Salgado, and by former guerrillas, as less a conflict about ideology and more a battle over poverty and basic human rights.
Liberals love revisionist history and will go out of their way to find people to confirm their prejudice. Note how this article begins with what was probably the worst attrocity committed by the pro-government, anti-communist troops, in the entire war, and then carefully balances the report by not citing a single attrocity perpetrated by the "heroic" guerrilla forces.
Oh! Thats right, the guerrillas never commit attrocities, only Americans and their allies can do that. I keep forgetting that we are always the bad guy, whether the enemy is communist guerrillas in El Salvador or Islamic terrorists in Iraq. Our enemies are always noble "freedom fighters," and Americans and our allies are always "oppressors" bent on smothering the poor and disadvantaged.
Leftist in the press are so predictable as to be boring. We are always wrong and the bad guys are always right (or should I say, "Left"). Somehow America, the nation to which most the world's people either seek to emulate or seek to gain entry to; the most prosperous, egalatarian, free nation on Earth is always wrong, an oppressor, murderous, and anti-freedom. It is always those who fight against us who are the noble oppressed people who only want freedom for themselves.
Somehow these "noble people" always wind up being part of the most pernicious, evil, murderous, and oppressive movements. This is of course because instead of telling them the truth, that one has to strive to attain wealth and freedom, they are told by those movements a utopian lie. Just support the Communists, and you will be "free" and "equal" They can't tell them the truth; that "freedom" means living as their masters tell them to live, and equal means levelling society to the lowest common denominator of society.
Yep just another anti-American propaganda piece form the Washington Post...Ho-hum, what a bore...
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posted by Will Malven at 7:51 AM
4 Comments:
For some balance, read the UN Truth Commission report which investigated atrocities by both government and guerrilla forces, and concluded that more than 85% of the cases of atrocities against civilians were committed by government forces or associated death squads.
It was a sad commentary on US policy in the early 1980's that the US denied that the massacre at El Mozote occurred, where more than 800 non-combatants were killed, instead of trying to correct the abuses of the Salvadoran armed forces that our tax dollars were supporting
Oh goodie,
Another Liberal America-hater citing the most corrupt organization in the world, The Useless Nations, as an authority.
What's sad is socialists like you who still dream of the day when the Commies can take over.
I never denied that the attrocities occurred. In fact I allowed that it did, what I said was that we only ever hear of the attrocities committed by the anti-communist forces, never about the attrocities committed by the pro-communist forces.
If your going to comment, learn to read what I write.
I'll bet you supported the Sandanista guerrillas as well.
It seems that you didn't read what your commenter Tim wrote. He referred you "for some balance" to a report which included and acknowledged guerrilla atrocities. Still you're not happy. Tsk-tsk.
To claim that the UN ever offers a "balanced" view, is so absurd as to be in-credible.
The UN is primarily dedicated to bashing the United States. I wouldn't ever look to them for a "balanced" review of any conflict in which America has an interest.
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