The Laughing Wolf

A Clarification and Amplification

In this post below, Sapper Mike makes some good points that apply to both the Honduran and Dominican troops. In this post, Teresa also makes a good point. Both remind me that I have failed to make one thing clear: this is not a reflection on the military involved. The Spanish military have done an outstanding job, from intercepting an arms shipment (that had to be let go, alas) on the high seas to damned fine work on the ground. I have no doubt that the Dominican and Honduran troops working with them worked to similar high standards.

The problem lies not with them, but with their governments. It is their governments who are craven oathbreakers, who have used the pullout to play on the international stage, and who have done other unsavory things. It was not the troops, and I in no way meant to imply that it was.

LW