The first task on her agenda should be to create a Truth Commission. Appoint academic experts, faith leaders, human rights investigators and members of the communities of people from Central America to sit on the commission. Its purpose: to come to terms with our role in the human rights tragedies of El Salvador and its neighbors and to create a full record of the consequences of our military and foreign policy choices. We know the contours of the story: the conflict in El Salvador was where President Reagan drew a Cold War line in the sand. The Reagan Administration ignored El Salvador’s decades of brutal military rule, the oppression of campesinos, and the assassinations of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the political leaders of the democratic opposition, labor organizers, and four American churchwomen working alongside the displaced.