Hideous dream

"In a distinguished career in elite Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces counter-terrorist units, Stan Goff went to Vietnam, Guatemala, El Salvador, Grenada, Panama, Venezuela, Honduras, South Korea, Colombia, Peru, Somalia, and, in 1994, Haiti. There, he refused to turn away from the implications of his own experience. He chose to defy the contradictions between what the foreign policy establishment said and what the U.S. military did, and took sides with Haitian democratic forces over the U.S.-supported death squad apparatus. Conflict escalated with his men, who were steeped in racist,…