"Colombia has become the Israel of Latin America"

Even if we breed them train them and back them (and it's not the case in 80% of your examples) we have every right in the world to discredit and squash them if/when they turn against us. Duh! Welcome to the real world where things are different from youtube.

But as I said it has nothing to do with the point I was making. I did not even say that we should squash them, I merely pointed out that Martin and the book presented only one side of a very complicated story.

 

i propose we get out of the drug dealing business first.... then analyze each example seperately.

 

LOL Cock roach rancher. Giddy up you nag.

 

You think that the Ayatollah, Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Chavez, and the Taliban are the result of American NON-involvement?

It must be nice in your bubble.

Read the damn book. Learn something.

Martin

 

OK, everything that ever goes bad is our fault. I get it now.

So what's your suggestion for the venezuela/colombia situation? Keep our fingers crossed? Or will Obama be able to put them under one of his magic spells?

 

you worried about our crops?

 

Nice and snappy.

"Worried about our crops." lmao

 

Worst possible solution, one that certainly would not nip the problem in the bud. Do you think American influence, democracy and free market economics would blossom once we step in and take out Chavez? If anything, doing so would confirm all the worst that he says about us. We would prove him right.

The cold war is over and with it the last poor excuse for direct intervention in Latin American politics. Even at the time nobody pretended that the US and USSR were acting in Chile's best interests. Certainly the outcome with Pinochet supports my thesis and my policy better than it supports yours. Allende was no saint, but compared to Pinochet he certainly wasn't a cockroach either.

Martin

 

OK, everything that ever goes bad is our fault. I get it now.

What is this, third grade?

Read the damn book.

So what's your suggestion for the venezuela/colombia situation?

Um, how about we let them sort it out?

I don't see any reason for direct US involvement unless Venezuela invades Columbia, which isn't going to happen, and even if it did would be great for US interests.

Correa and Chavez are pissed because Uribe outsmarted them. He stole a march and he's going to get away with it. Go Uribe.

You can't even tell when we've already won, and you want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by getting the US involved. That's exactly what Chavez wants, exactly what he's been gunning for with years of fiery rhetoric. Sadly he doesn't seem to have underestimated the intelligence of the average American.

Martin