The Salvador Option

[PornoDoggy]

I'm opposed to the idea from a tactical standpoint only.

1. Some of the things described in the article are already being done.

2. The claims by conservatives that the policy was successful in El Salvador are certainly open to discussion.

3. Seems to me that encouraging Kurdish and Shiite targeting of Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers will only lead to greater instability, and compound the problems we have created in Iraq. I don't think the government that will result from the upcoming elections will exist without civil war for any more than 5 years (probably not 3) - you unleash THAT genie on top of everything else, and the situation today may soon look calm compared to the resulting chaos.

4. The practices described in the artilce failed to work in Vietnam, where everybody and their mother's water buffalo knew who was behind it, and this was before cell phone cameras and videotape. I wonder how well it would work today ... the visual I'm getting is a couple of CIA spooks and a few Special Ops soldiers being paraded about and confessing on al Jazeera. (Maybe a retiring pornographer could make like Pat Tillman and volunteer for a mission like that?)

5. When we get down and fight at their level - we lose. Simple as that.