I GUESS THESE ARE THE FLASHBACKS THEY PROMISED ME

Deja vu all over again:

Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers.

Well, sure. Look how well Operation Phoenix worked in Vietnam. Read here, here, here and here.

UPDATE: The Rude Pundit has more.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Billmon awakes from his long winter's nap to comment as only he can.
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