we, the government, can protect you from the guerrillas, but the guerrillas cannot protect you from us, and you are going to have to choose. It took years, internment camps and horrific human-rights abuses, but eventually the Guatemalan rebels were crushedBody Counts: "This was a favor the Iraqis did not ask, a revolution in which they did not participate and a debt of gratitude they do not feel"

it’s hard to call those triumphs a liberation,