Catchword: Salvador option

Filed under: English, Military, Politics

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called “the Salvador option”—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is.…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.

Article or document title:
“The Salvador Option” (URL)

Author:
Michael Hirsh, John Barry

Article, document, publication, web site:
Newsweek

Date of publication:
Jan. 8, 2005

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