Two important corrections from readers:

Your piece today in NRO brought back memories of the left going ballistic over our Central American policy. However, when you speak of “death squads,” the NPR writers manual referred to them as “right wing death squads” or more accurately “rightwingdeathsquads.” If your are going to talk about them use the full handle.

And…

Jonah –
I cannot figure out why you think “Tramp” is a strip club…. But I assure you it is not. And the pole is a pole for dancing, not stripping. Seriously.

Note I fixed spelling of “pole” in the headline.