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David Brooks thinks modern day El Salvador should give us hope. I think Brooks is a tool:

ter·ror·ist (ter'er-ist) n. 1. One who engages in acts or an act of terrorism.

5. One who uses rape and murder for political purposes -- unless the victims are four U.S. church women sexually assaulted and killed in 1980 by members of El Salvador’s U.S.-backed military, in which case excuses and distortions pour forth from then-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (“these nuns were not just nuns; they were also political activists”) and Secretary of State Al Haig (the nuns “may have tried to run a roadblock”).

El Salvador Today: Population below the poverty line: 48%
Literacy: 82% male, 77% Female
Currency: US Dollar

Via CIA World Factbook 9/28/04

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Tell yourself that the absurd ideology underpinning this corporate bullshit cannot last for ever. It will go the same way as the dialectical materialism of the communist system. The problem is knowing when...

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