1. The Pope's decision to honor Óscar Romero reminds me of a story about Salvardorian death squads & the New Republic.
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2. In November 1989 the Salvadoran military (trained by USA) committed a large massacre that included 6 Jesuit priests.
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3. Morton Kondracke, New Republic staff writer, went on TV trying to pin the blame for the massacre on leftists rebels.
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4. The thing is, Kondracke knew that the spin he was making was a lie: in pages of TNR he wrote editorial which laid bare true facts.
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5. Story of Kondracke's perfidy told in
@Eric_Alterman's Sound & Fury, pages 190-191:https://books.google.ca/books?id=AawSTuz4ldAC&pg=PA304&lpg=PA304&dq=eric+alterman+morton+kondracke+el+salvador&source=bl&ots=QKewakfHqv&sig=FJrxNU9jMkyBBbdxA_szF_HAKEo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vKLRVM3TEIzXoATLkIGICw&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=kondracke&f=false …2 replies 4 retweets 7 likes -
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6. Beyond Kondracke, there's a larger story here. Salvadoran military did horrific things -- rape mass murder in the tens of thousands.
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7. In committing their crimes, the Salvadoran right had a vast army of American apologists among conservatives and some liberals.
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8. The apologists for Salvadoran war crimes included many self-proclaimed Catholics: William Buckley, D'Souza, Michael Novak
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9. Pope Francis is a Jesuit, the order that bore the brunt of the violence against the Catholic church in Latin America.
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10. Francis knows all too well what happened in the 1970s-1990s. And is making some effort to come to terms with it.
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11. As Francis tries to grapple with what happened in Latin America, someone should ask D'Souza, Novak & others if they have any remorse.
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