Reassessing and reexamining the situation is not an option. The school has got to close its operations permanently.
"The Center for International Policy has estimated that the current annual cost of keeping WHINSEC's doors open is $7.5 million, much of which is U.S. tax dollars," reported the States News Service in June this year. Those U.S. tax dollars continue to flow to the institution because our government would like us to believe it is essential that we train Latin American soldiers to fight in our "war on terror."
I reject war as an instrument of foreign policy. And I reject the training of soldiers for covert operations and education in harsh interrogation techniques. How about you?
We all should have been at Fort Benning this weekend with Dennis Kucinich because it is schools like the School of the Americas that make Iraqs, Irans, Abu Ghraibs, Guantanamos, etc. happen. Only when we remove the militarization of education in America will we truly free ourselves from tyranny.
