@Brandon9000,
Brandon9000 wrote:
JTT wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/30/afghanistan.terrorism19
Backyard Terrorism
"If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents," George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, "they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril." I'm glad he said "any government", as there's one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention.
For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush's government.u
Until January this year, Whisc was called the "School of the Americas", or SOA. Since 1946, SOA has trained more than 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continent's most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch show, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni.
Does the "School of the Americas" teach its students how to target non-combatants as the primary intended target? Al Qaeda does. I await your next evasion.
Your reluctance (or lack of interest)to consider the responsibility of Americans in abuses of their foreign policy is noted.
Others who may be interested may note that the School teaches commando operations, sniper training, M16 operation, psychological warfare, subversion, intimidation techniques to selected military leaders of Latin America in the absence of a declaration of war (listed above).
No distinction is made between combatants and non-combatants, except that they are all subsumed under "counter insurgency warfare". The target groups have already been listed, above.
Now, what are you going to do about it?