The 'Salvador Option' (MSNBC, Jan 12, 2005)
Rumsfeld Dismisses 'Salvador Option' for Iraq (ABC News, Jan 12, 2005)*
Why are death squads a bad idea? I mean, aside from the moral reasons?
Because they don't work, and they've been demonstrated to not work**.
But Cheney and Rumsfeld, who were in administrations that used death squads, that watched death squads fail to achieve their stated goals, still want to try them now, today, here, in Iraq.
Why?
Because this is a world that they are creating. History might repeat itself for people who are members 'of the reality-based community', but not for them. Because they're making history. They're creating the world with their decisions, and death squads will work for them because they've decided death squads will work for them. They don't have to pay attention to history, because they, not history, are the motive force of the world.
*Rumsfeld says it ain't so, so now I know it must be true.
**Some have noted that this may depend on your definition of "work". But I think my point here about not "needing" to think about consequences may still be valid.
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