The Great SOA(SchoolofAssasins/americas) Debate http://www.coha.org/the-great-soa-debate/

The author felt that facts were facts. My camp held out for a principled position; that the issue being upheld here involved a lot more than just a name change, and that the enormously committed work of the SOAW did not necessarily have to meet the standards of a departmental peer review panel. My side recalled U.S.-supplied gunships slamming hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber bullets into the side of Guazapa, while collaterally blowing apart the children of campesinos hiding in the brush.

At the same time, Catholic priests were being murderously gunned down by U.S.-trained units, including those within and outside a structured involvement of Pentagon-supplied trainers and missions. All the while the State Department lied to us concerning El Salvador’s awful human rights record. 

Yet, at the end of the day, it didn’t help to act as if only my own voice mattered, and it became important whether people working in the same crowd, with differing opinions, could harmonize their positions in a common cause. So, we didn’t entirely squelch the dissident voice of some research associates. As for myself, I feel that Father Roy and his people are magnificently doing the work of the gods. As George Santayana once told us, ugly truths must at times give way to what could be called beautiful lies.