...me read to you another quote from our Secretary of State: First and foremost, let me emphasize that our problem with El Salvador is external intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign state in this hemisphere, nothing more, nothing less. That is the essential problem that we are dealing...

...conspiracy. When it came to El Salvador, Haig's understanding of the situation was straightforward: "Our problem with El Salvador is external intervention...the internal affairs of a sovereign nation in this hemisphere — nothing more, nothing less."70 There was much in the language of this "Reagan offensive"...