excerpted from a comment to this thread over at the Agonist
Let's consider the content of what has just been posted (with what I can only assume is Sean-Paul's imprimatus?) here at the Agonist:
In this sort of warfare you need to tilt the balance of terror your way. The appointment of Negroponte, prior to his reassignment, was a sign they wanted to go down the death squad route. And they did. And they're losing it. Because they have shitty intelligence.
The only people who stand a chance of winning a war of terror against the ex-Baathists are locals.
So this post is advocating a better, more effective death squad strategy, because ours is so shitty? Because I can't find another way to read this statement any other way.
So now Central America in the 1980s...what we did there was a good thing?
I hope to God I never read another critique of Negroponte on this site (The Agonist), because if this post stays up it will have lost all credibility on the issue.