Free Trade For Colombia

FrontPage Magazine ^ | 23 May 2007 | Dick Morris

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The recent deal between Congress and the White House clears the way for the ratification of free-trade agreements with Panama and Peru, two American allies in Latin America. But what about Colombia?

Colombia has risked the lives of its police and military and sustained huge casualties in an effort to do us a favor by keeping drugs off our streets. Our military aid to Colombia has not been frittered away on useless hardware or used to line some general’s pockets, but has paid for a military that has disarmed the drug dealers’ personal armies — 30,000 have been disarmed — and driven the leftist drug-linked guerillas into hiding in a remote jungle portion of the country. Unable to come out or mount operations in major urban areas, they are just trying to survive, to stay one step ahead of the American helicopters manned by brave Colombian soldiers that pursue them.

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Brave, friendly, courageous Colombia has transformed itself from the hemisphere's worst hellhole to its sunny garden spot in six short years. It's scooped up and shot dead dopers and done miracles to keep drugs off our streets. How do Democrats treat such a precious ally? With a slap in the face. Colombia doesn't deserve this.

[mbraynard]

Here here!

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We need to haul out the big guns in colombia’s defense. Get the word out any way we can!