Military sources in El Salvador's capital confirmed that "improved intelligence" derived from new U.S. reconnaissance flights were responsible for the fact that Salvadoran Air Force bombing attacks became much more accurate: However, the targets were not the guerrillas: Well, you can see where Im going with this. Refugees also reported that the armed forces used incendiary bombs against the population, either Napalm of White Phospherous, according to a European doctor who inspected the wounds of victims: The correlation between US-supplied "improved intelligence" and the increased kill-rate, including direct attacks on unnarmed peasants was virtually ignored by the press. When reported, the reader was offered two interpretations. The quality news version, reported in newspeak that even though the Air Force intensification of the bombing was "in response to encouragement from U.S. advisers.": According to the second and very different interpritation, free of indoctrination: Noam Chomsky comments:
Indeed. A 1985 Americas Watch (Human Rights Watch) report revealed a US designed military strategy called "draining the sea." The primary target was the civilian population– murdering or displacing them in order to remove any possible guerrilla sympathizers: Furthermore, in its annual report of 1985, the Committee noted that the US administration openly declared that Salvadoran civilians living in the FMLN liberated zones were legitimate targets for attack: The State Department invented a new category for the laws of war to legitimize attacks on civilians. Aryeh Neier, the executive director of Americas Watch observes:
Wrong administration. Not like it matters. It's the wrong approach to focus on personalities. The problem is institutional and systematic. Anyways, Im just gonna put this here so I can pull it for something else..
Again, you focus on the system, not one man. It's systematic. Right now Im focusing on the media which, in my view, is half the problem. Besides, Im doing this in part for my own research of history. If I find something interesting I share it.