>I still think there is a difference in magnitude between installing a dictator in a foreign country and encouraging the systematic murder and rape of civilians

>I still think there is a difference in magnitude between installing a dictator in a foreign country and encouraging the systematic murder and rape of civilians There has been a strong correlation between US-trained South American dictators and death squads. http://www.laprogressive.com/school-of-the-americas-grads-become-death-squad-killers/ http://www.laprogressive.com/school-of-the-americas-grads-be... The US CIA and special forces supervised these kinds of tactics in the Vietnam war, with rape used for interrogation and the killing of tens of thousands of civilians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program#Torture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program#Torture