georgephillip
Diamond Member
Chris Hedges makes no attempt to hide his far-left politics; however, he spent five years of his life covering the civil war in El Salvador. Instead of manufacturing awkward ad hominems, perhaps you can refute some of his claims:Were you there?.... solely because of Reagan Administration-sponsored death squads in their home country. ....
BS
The source I'm relying on covered the war in El Salvador for five years.
You Don’t Need a Telescope to Find a ‘Shithole Country’
"But, far to the north, was a shithole country ruled by a former B-list movie actor who had starred in 'Bedtime for Bonzo' and who was in the early stages of dementia. This shithole country, which saw the world in black and white, communist and capitalist, was determined to thwart the aspirations of the poor and the landless..."
Your source is a hyper-partisan emo-queen, and you seem to forget that none of the kids here illegally were anywhere near alive yet in the 80s.
You Don’t Need a Telescope to Find a ‘Shithole Country’
"In the fall of 1983, the rebels, supplied with weapons from the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, were on the verge of capturing the country’s second largest city.
"I did not, at first, travel with the army.
"It was too dangerous.
"It was far safer to go into combat with the FMLN.
"Without outside intervention, the rebels would have seized control of El Salvador within months and ousted the oligarchs."
When you say "...none of the kids here illegally were anywhere near alive yet in the 80s", that is true for the Dreamers but not for their parents.
The neighborhood I live in today was a bastion of upper-middle class whiteness prior to Reagan's meddling in the politics of Central America 38 years ago.
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