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2004-11-17 Caribbean-Latin America

Rummy stresses need for greater Latin participation in WOT

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-11-17 2:50:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [N]ot all nations in the hemisphere shared Washingtonâs definition of terrorism, which focuses on Islamic extremists like Al Qaeda.

Assholes. Like they won't ever be on the target list.

Posted by beer_me 2004-11-17 3:59:24 AM|| 2004-11-17 3:59:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Build...wall...now.

Posted by anonymous2u 2004-11-17 9:35:33 AM|| 2004-11-17 9:35:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 maybe we really do need a wall. With so much modern technology available, I fail to see how increasing the flow of legal workers and decreasing the flow illegal workers could not be achieved.

Posted by 2b 2004-11-17 9:59:03 AM|| 2004-11-17 9:59:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We need to push for more reform in Mexico. If they can finally rise up to industrialized status they can take over responsibility for Latin America.

Posted by rjschwarz 2004-11-17 10:36:59 AM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-11-17 10:36:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 rjswartz---that is the right idea. I have thought about it for a long time, but how can it be done? It seems like corruption is part of the culture, so how can the cycle be broken? And that culture is being exported to the US through many illegal aliens.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-17 11:00:53 AM|| 2004-11-17 11:00:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 All these Latin American nations aren't going to do a damned thing until the enemy is right at their doorstep, at which time they'll likely scream for Yanqui help/protection.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-17 11:07:40 AM|| 2004-11-17 11:07:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Rummy's exposing the deeper flaw in all the "world community" multilateralist mumbo-jumbo: most nations on this planet are run by kleptocratic, incompetent governments that don't really govern. You can't batten the hatches when the ship of state's not seaworthy to begin with.

Banana republics are merely milder versions of failed states. Most Latin American governments, like most governments outside of the developed world, are not fully capable of defending their borders. And as in Russia, Nigeria, indonesia, and a hundred other nations, Latin nations' economic assets tend to be viewed as the private domain of a kleptocratic regime that embraces a few dozen powerful families and the nation's "security" services.

The notion that a Mexican regime that is throughly infiltrated by the drug trade will somehow prove an effective counter-terrorist link strikes me as ludicrous.

Posted by lex 2004-11-17 12:00:32 PM|| 2004-11-17 12:00:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 build the wall from Cali all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-11-17 12:46:58 PM|| 2004-11-17 12:46:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Given today's explosions at Citibank branches in Argentina, this may be timely.

Posted by Tibor 2004-11-17 1:07:37 PM|| 2004-11-17 1:07:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hezbollah once again?

Posted by lex 2004-11-17 2:04:29 PM|| 2004-11-17 2:04:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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