DesertFox
05-20-2001, 01:38 AM
Article by Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army
On Jan. 17, a new Department of Defense school, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation [WHISC], will open at Fort Benning near Columbus.
The institute will train and educate soldiers from Latin America, alongside U.S Army soldiers, so that our militaries can more effectively pursue our mutual interests of peace, security, and stronger democracies in the Western Hemisphere.
Predictably, critics of U.S. military engagement in Latin America and throughout the world plan to denounce the opening of this new Department of Defense Institute, which follows last month's closing of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas. Even though the two institutions are different in nature and outlook, critics are already trying to impugn the integrity of the institute with the misleading, mindless slogan, "New name, same shame."
Some in the media, unfortunately, have played into this argument as well by describing the opening of the institute as the re-opening of the School of the Americas. It is not.
Entire article at http://www.benning.army.mil/fbhome/tocdrop.htm , scroll down under Schools and Courses to the bottom to WHISC, and on the new screen scroll down on the main menu (at left) to Opinion. (They don’t make it easy!)
Looks like the lefties won one here. I was Public Affairs Officer at USARSA in 1989 and, thanks to the media and the gorons, it was the most miserable year I ever spent in any one job in my life.
I haven’t been back since 1991, but don’t see how this WHISC can be TOO different from USARSA. It’s in the same buildings USARSA occupied, teaching the same stuff, employing the same civilians and using the same library holdings, including two books I wrote on Latin America while still in the Army.
On Jan. 17, a new Department of Defense school, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation [WHISC], will open at Fort Benning near Columbus.
The institute will train and educate soldiers from Latin America, alongside U.S Army soldiers, so that our militaries can more effectively pursue our mutual interests of peace, security, and stronger democracies in the Western Hemisphere.
Predictably, critics of U.S. military engagement in Latin America and throughout the world plan to denounce the opening of this new Department of Defense Institute, which follows last month's closing of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas. Even though the two institutions are different in nature and outlook, critics are already trying to impugn the integrity of the institute with the misleading, mindless slogan, "New name, same shame."
Some in the media, unfortunately, have played into this argument as well by describing the opening of the institute as the re-opening of the School of the Americas. It is not.
Entire article at http://www.benning.army.mil/fbhome/tocdrop.htm , scroll down under Schools and Courses to the bottom to WHISC, and on the new screen scroll down on the main menu (at left) to Opinion. (They don’t make it easy!)
Looks like the lefties won one here. I was Public Affairs Officer at USARSA in 1989 and, thanks to the media and the gorons, it was the most miserable year I ever spent in any one job in my life.
I haven’t been back since 1991, but don’t see how this WHISC can be TOO different from USARSA. It’s in the same buildings USARSA occupied, teaching the same stuff, employing the same civilians and using the same library holdings, including two books I wrote on Latin America while still in the Army.