tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583054.post109630337526756374..comments2023-09-27T05:42:00.018-04:00Comments on The Progressive Iconoclast: El Salvador in the U.S. military imagination (updated)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583054.post-1096340446415667632004-09-27T23:00:00.000-04:002004-09-27T23:00:00.000-04:00Whenever I hear that old chesnut being tottted out...Whenever I hear that old chesnut being tottted out again, I always go back to this quote from Oscar Arias<br />Sanchez's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech:<br /><br />"I know well you share what we say to all members of the international community, and particularly to those in the East and the West, with far greater power and resources than my small nation could never hope to possess, I say to them, with the utmost urgency: let<br />Central Americans decide the future of Central America. Leave the interpretation and implementation of our peace plan to us. Support the efforts for peace instead of the forces of war in our region. Send our people ploughshares instead of swords, pruning hooks instead of spears. If they, for their own purposes, cannot refrain from amassing the weapons of war, then, in the name of God, at least they should leave us in peace."<br /><br />Take care,<br />RandyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com