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To: Tailgunner Joe
Since you posted no comments with your text, I fail to see how these areas "will turn into anarchy". These areas are already largely anarchic, and a 400 man airbase in Ecuador has failed to keep them from the FARC or the drug lords.

You also didn't explain why these areas are of critical economic importance, which you claimed in your earlier post.

The Unites States has no business fighting civil wars in Ecuador in economically irrelevant backwaters. I will be glad to see the airbase closed. I hope the FARC loses (although they are only moderately worse than the Morales government), but unless the United States plans to send boots on the ground into South American jungles, there is nothing the United States military can do about it.


42 posted on 10/31/2007 5:33:45 AM PDT by jas3
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To: jas3
1. I'm not the person you were originally posting to. I just wanted to give you some of the information you asked for.

2. Morales is the Chavista in power in Bolivia, not Ecuador.

3. We already have boots on the ground in Colombia. South American stability is of crucial importance to the national security of the United States of America. It is absolutely unacceptable to allow South America to be taken over by communist narco-terrorists.

You will be glad to see the airbase closed? So will all the communist terrorists in South America. If you want the US out of South America, then you should support Hugo Chavez and all the communist terrorists in South America who want the same thing as you do.

48 posted on 10/31/2007 11:54:37 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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