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EPISODE 105: Rationalizing Evil in El Salvador
🕑 Added 2024-03-20 19:54:48 +0000 UTCI am sorry to be taking you on this dark journey, but I strongly feel this is an important story that everyone should know. Over the years, I’ve tackled some heavy topics. This is definitely one of the heaviest. This episode covers some of the things that happened in El Salvador in the 1980s, in particular the story of the massacre at El Mozote, and how policies formulated by the White House supported death squads unleashing hell on civilians. As much as humanly possible, I’ll try to let the facts speak for themselves and not inject too much of my own commentary. I’ll pose here again the question that I asked in my previous episode… I’d like you to picture some of the most awful human beings you could possibly imagine… genocidal maniacs, torturers, child rapists. Got the picture? Ok. Now I’d like you to imagine if you can conceive of any circumstances in which not only you wouldn’t do everything in your power to stop them, but you would actually support them. Can you think of any scenario that would warrant you supporting people like that? Can you picture yourself fighting hard to make sure they have millions of dollars and supplies to carry out their activities? Keep your answer in mind as you listen to this episode.
Comments
Carlo
Thank you for bringing awareness to this story
AnaR737
Being from South America, one of the battlegrounds of the Cold War, I am finding it difficult to get in the right head space to listen to this one, but I thank you for putting it out there and I will listen when I can. Having both powers get into the "end justifies the means" position lead to so much death that no one remembers any more.
