Old Ghosts

Reader Andie writes:

This new cast of characters in BUSH II should make everybody remember how we handled shit in the 80's. This seems the most cruel of blows...to get Negroponte
back on board? How about we compromise and stop training our own terrorists at the School of the Americas (or whatever the new name for it is...) and THEN we can start fighting the rest of the terrorists that we made?

Shrill, but worth posting. The facts are that this choice for National Intelligence Director has intelligence consisting mostly of turning Central America into a dirty war zone in the 1980s, including covert funding, death squad training, and arms-for-hostages deals. Negroponte is not only a hideous choice, he appears to be a hideous man, hiding in the shadows and unburdened with a conscience. It took him all of 6 months in Iraq before they started discussing "The Salvador Option." Do you want that kind of logic guiding our intelligence policy?