The Salvador Option

[essentialsaltes]

Following that model, one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of assassination or so-called "snatch" operations, in which the targets are sent to secret facilities for interrogation.

What shall we call them? Freedom Squads or Patriot Squads?

Comments

[talentlessclod.livejournal.com]

isn't that how this whole terrorist thing started in the first place? didn't the US train afghanistani rebels to fight the russians? i'm not up on my US military/CIA history but i seem to recall it happening something like that.

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

Why stop with the US arming and training the mujahadeen, including Osama and the future Taliban, when you can have Iraq, too?

With friends like these, who needs enemies?