As one of many Americans who fought the Reagan Administration’s effort to turn El Salvador into another Vietnam, I’m both inspired by current events in that country and angered at the lack of interest shown by the U.S. media. Like Vietnam, it may be too embarrassing for some to look back at our complicity in the killing.

In 1980, after Archbishop Oscar Romero appealed to “the men of the army… the ranks of the National Guard, the police and the military,” to stop “killing your own brother peasants,” he said, “(n)o soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law,” and ended his plea with the words, “I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God, stop the repression.” For that, he…