SmithAntics

This oughta win more hearts and minds.

The Pentagon is considering forming hit squads of Kurdish and Shia fighters to target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a strategic shift borrowed from the American struggle against left-wing guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago.

Under the so-called “El Salvador option”, Iraqi and American forces would be sent to kill or kidnap insurgency leaders, even in Syria, where some are thought to shelter.

Of course, we can expect these operations to be carried out with the legality and respect for human rights employed in similar operations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa during the Cold War.

So a few million innocents—including nuns and small children—are slaughtered indiscriminately by vicious murderers on the CIA payroll.

It’s the War on Terror, baby.

More here.