In the 1980s, many of us who are old enough to remember watched with horror as the United States funded the right-wing government in the Salvadoran civil war that collaborated with death squads.
We watched the U.S. government launch a counter-revolution in Nicaragua, shredding the idealistic hopefulness that fueled the rise of the Sandinistas. We watched the 1983 Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada and the 1989 removal of Panama’s ruler Manuel Noriega.