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...America was doing much the same thing in El Salvador, denounce the president as a hypocrite, and sit down Instead. Sontag devoted most of her ten minutes to an attack on communism qua communism, and on the American left, at least some portion which she accused of "old and corrupt rhetoric" regarding Marxism Leninism "We thought we loved justice, many of us did. But we did not love the truth enough which to say that our priorities were wrong. The result was that many of us, and I include mystery did not understand the nature of the Communist tyranny...
...similarities between Viet Nam and El Salvador far outweigh the differences. The enormous infusion of money; the support given to a corrupt government that, like its opposition, uses atrocities to accomplish its objectives; American advisers attempting to train a ramshackle, ragtag army; and Washington debates about whether or not American ground troops will be needed to win. It's all much too familiar and, more to the point, irritating to the deep national wounds that have barely stopped oozing...
...impels the government into acts of repression, starting a vicious circle that traps both government and opponents and destroys whatever moderate center exists-fulfilling the central purpose of the insurgency. Moreover, the victims of terrorist attacks are almost invariably the ablest and most dedicated officials, leaving in place the corrupt...
...assuming that there probably are Nicaraguans fighting for the left in El Salvador--with or without their Government's blessing--does that justify American military involvement of the sort Haig is clearly itching for? What would we defend--a corrupt, militaristic government which has allowed killer brigades to wander the countryside, aimlessly murdering civilians while battling the ill-defined forces of the left? And what of the Nicaraguan bases. Cuban-built or not? They only become dangerous if interpreted as the first falling dominos in a potential avalanche tumbling across El Salvador, Hondouras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and then the shipping...
...radicals, whose public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic revolutionary country and Communism as the wave of the future in Indochina, if not in the entire developing world. They were outraged by our incursion into Cambodia less because...