El Salvador: Talk or Big Talk?

Can they really be serious? There are simpletons enough in the Administration. But can they be so simple as to think they can impose a military solution in El Salvador—whether by sending Marines to the rescue or propping a decrepit and faltering junta with extensive arms shipments?

Secretary of State Haig hasn’t said that the Administration would send troops to El Salvador, not in so many words. He has merely hinted at the possibility; in an interview reported in the papers in ...