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2008-03-05 Caribbean-Latin America

Behind the Colombia - Ecuador - Venezuela Border Fracas

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-05 11:02|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 petty ante dictators like Chavez will usually fold when challenged by a credible force. They rise to power on intimidation and fear. But the fact is that when a real force fights back, few have what it takes to maintain their illusion of power.

Posted by Crease Poodle1618 2008-03-05 11:56|| 2008-03-05 11:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully we can have a che-like picture of oogoo's bullet riddled corpse on a slab just in time for the US election...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-05 12:13|| 2008-03-05 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I read a suggestion yesterday that I liked. The US should plan joint exercises with the Colombia airforce and send out top of the line fighters there. If Chavez messes around we take out his airforce.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-03-05 13:26|| 2008-03-05 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 If Chavez messes around we take out his airforce.

...and oil offload transfer facilities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-05 16:16|| 2008-03-05 16:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like SOUTHCOM = AFRICOM will have several big jobs/agendums after all.

My biggest worry is that Moud, Radical Islamism, North Korea, African Wars-Crises, and now South Amer will explode in the Year 2000 POTUS Campaign known as the Year 2008 POTUS Campaign, VV AMERICA'S ALREADY OVERBURDENED ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY, + OSAMA's US-SPECIFIC "ECONOMIC/NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY" SPEECH-VIDEO???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-05 18:19|| 2008-03-05 18:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, JM - a bunch of us are concerned about that.

Posted by lotp 2008-03-05 18:47|| 2008-03-05 18:47|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm looking at the free republic thread Joseph mentioned; you can find it here.

It has some nice comments.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-05 19:11|| 2008-03-05 19:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I think Yugo is going to do _something_ stupid. Columbia is in a position to put a really big dent into FARC and he's gonna have to act fast before his window of opportunity closes. So he's going to go ahead and do something stupid so he can lose a big war (or win it at ruinous cost) rather than risk losing the Cold Peace.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-03-05 19:13|| 2008-03-05 19:13|| Front Page Top

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