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| Another Saga of American Abandonment |
| 2015-06-08 |
| Let’s stop for a moment here. While the rape of the women was wrong, all four of them (and the nominally Catholic Liberation Theology orders three of them were associated with, the Maryknoll Ministries and the Ursuline Order) were unlawful combatants in the war, on the side of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the Salvadoran FLMN, and the ultimate power in both those movements, the KGB working through the Cuban DGI. These movements, and, no doubt, these women, carried and concealed dispatches, supplies and weapons for the guerrillas, and conducted reconnaissance and espionage on a routine basis. There is no moral difference between servants of Communism and servants of Naziism or any other form of tyranny — by their deeds ye shall know them. We’ll say again, even spies and saboteurs shouldn’t be raped, but spies do not deserve to live. The world is a better place with these four traitors and tools of terrorism dead. While the manner of their death was horrible and the perpetrators should be held to account, you should feel no more sympathy for them than you do for Lord Haw-Haw, or Judas Iscariot, for that matter. snip So why, you may ask, is Vides back in the news today? Mr. Vides moved to the U.S. in 1989 because his safety in El Salvador could not be protected. He has since lived in Florida, and his children and grandchildren are all U.S. citizens. Two cases, both filed in 1999, brought legal claims against him in American courts. The first was filed by the families of the murdered churchwomen. In 2000 a federal jury ruled that Gen. Vides was not liable for the killings. The second was brought by three people who had fled El Salvador after being tortured during the conflict. In 2002 a federal jury in that case did find Gen. Vides liable, under the theory of “command authority”—that as head of the military, he was ultimately responsible for the actions of nearly 55,000 soldiers and police. The subtext to these legal actions, that the two diplomats who wrote this Wall Street Journal op-ed so diplomatically leave unmentioned, is that they were carried out as lawfare, by the same far-left interests that still bemoan the defeat of the FMLN and El Salvador’s deliverance from the shackles of slavery. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |