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Report: U.S. Considers Fallback Strategy for Iraq

HeadlineMar 12, 2007

The Los Angeles Times is reporting American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy for Iraq that includes a gradual withdrawal of forces and a renewed emphasis on training Iraqi fighters in case the current troop buildup fails or is derailed by Congress. Officials say such a strategy would be based in part on the U.S. experience in El Salvador. During the 1980s, President Reagan sent Green Berets to train the Salvadoran military. At the same time, the CIA secretly backed death squads in El Salvador.

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