Reply #127: No, it is misleading by not giving dates to the changes as to what is

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taught there, or the dates to when the individuals listed attended the school. There was an overhaul in the courses taught- torture, assassination were removed- AS THEY NEEDED TO BE- the pro-democracy stuff is still too superficial, and should be increased to be a true component of the courses and be REQUIRED.

If you look at the statement that Clark is saying, I think he supports this principal, too bad the interviewer didn't ask a follow up question.

It is also misleading in that the question was put only in keep it open or close it. He should have asked WHAT should we do with the SOA. This is a program that the other countries have signed up for, what needs to be done is continued over site (which IS done, I believe by an outside organization) and further reform.

There are terrible problems in South and Central America, with the links to the drug trade, human rights abuses by rebel, government, right-wing paramilitary, and plain old criminal groups, corruption, and poverty. Any program that could be used in a positive way, should be. Human rights are certainly not going to served by leaving the worst of these militaries to their own devices.