From Rob Prince Blog Via 'Stop NATO Blog'
'So what is the Salvador option?'
''The Salvador Option” is a “terrorist mode”” of mass killings that was perfected by the US to destabilize regimes that the US saw as threats to its interests. Taught at places like the `School of the Americas’it is employed when other forms of political manipulation fail to produce the desired results. The option works through created and sponsored death squads, with the primary goal of committing slaughter of innocent lives. This triggers world outrage, necessitating intervention by the US under the humanitarian intervention framework. As we state in Part One, this was first applied in El Salvador, in the heyday of resistance against the military dictatorship, resulting in an estimated 75,000 deaths. In Guatemala during the 1980s and 1990s, the number of t hose killed by basically the same option was more than 200,000. ''
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