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I remember the NYT running a picture of a US Army Special Forces cadre deplaning in San Salvador in 1982, he was sent there to help train up the salvadoran army that was fighting leftist guerillas in that country's cvil war in the 1980's. He was (gasp!) carrying his M-16 with him. The moonbats back here went ballistic, to them it was further proof that Reagan was getting us involved in another Vietnam against the wishes of the public. There was earnest talk of a quagmire and an out-of-control president blowing off the war powers act to conduct a clandestine imperialist war at the behest of U.S. business interests...one guy with a rifle...yet when our president today commits 30,000 combat troops carrying not just rifles, these same people are strangely mute. WTF