Chavez orders troops to Colombian border (10 battalions, WAR?)

KRIS ^

[NonValueAdded]

Hugo got tired of waiting for GWB to attack. His people just weren’t buying it anymore so he found a different country to mess with.

[shield]

Dr. Jack Wheeler predicted this when VZ economy starts to drop, he said Chavez would attempt to start a war and he said it'd be Columbia since chavez couldn't get the US to bit. He said we'd be sending troops in. We've had our sops in Columbia for a while now. Wheeler said we'd be sending in the Marines.

It's a ploy to take VZ citizens off the huge economy problems that commie thug has caused.

[P.O.E.]

Between the hostage-takings and Chavez’s ties to FARC, I guess push was going to come to shove.

Unless, of course Kofi Annan can be persuaded to leave Kenya and try to get these neighbors to the table. (/sarc)

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I would see it as mexico getting ready to invade us. I'm sure Columbia sees it that way as well.

chavez is gonna hang around as long as castro I bet. Another thorn in our side for decades.

Unless his military leaders.......

[gitmogrunt]

Chavez touches Colombia...he’s dead meat along w/Castro.

[CGASMIA68]

give the USMC a good xcuse to go in

[Arkinsaw]

Yes under Bush or even McCain but not under “Living Leftist Obama”

I dunno about that. I think South American leaders, even leftist ones, would react like the Saudis...publicly yelling for the US to stay out but privately begging an Obama to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NUT! if he starts invading neighbors.

That, and the internal pressure, would likely force even Obama to bomb some aspirin factories and get in his way.

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A tank battalion has 3-4 companies with a total of some 50 tanks.

500 tanks?

[WoofDog123]

Very good analysis, Wag the Dog works everywhere indeed. The only side issue is that Chavez is a Megalomaniac and doesn’t know when to stop, which will add to matters.

[Joe Boucher]

If you recall a few years back a coup took hugo the nut out of power and then he got back in, why did we allow that to happen?

[WoofDog123]

“That scumbag should be taken out like Noriega was taken out”

Please direct me to the pre-deployed US 10,000+ troops, airfield, mech infantry, deployment facilities, within a few *miles* of Chavez’s HQ. This is a totally different situation logistically, aside from the fact Chavez is not a career CIA payrollee.

Also, Noriega could have been ‘taken out’ without firing more than maybe a few shots if the US had simply agreed to take him into custody as we were asked to during the October ‘89 failed coup.

[AfterManyASummer]

It’s not the headline on the website for CNN. I wonder why that is.

[frankiep]

Scary isn't it?

How anyone here possibly thinks that we can keep doing what we are doing and get involved with Iran, and get involved with Venezuela, and still be prepared to deal with China and/or Russia if needed, is living in a dreamworld. It's scary to think that so many people here are so willing to throw our already overworked and stretched thin military at this situation, and every other hotspot. How exactly can we do this without the military, and country, collapsing under the weight?

[Recon Dad]

We’ve spent billions on equipment and training.

[WoofDog123]

This guy starting a fight would be in US interests, as it might wake up the region’s leaders to the fact they have a hitler amongst them.

[Popman]

Castro's Cuba has been a greater de-stabilizing factors for more years and we haven't done anything, so why should we incur loss of life and $6.00 a gallon gas for someone that just shoots his mouth off?

Just how has Castro has de-stabilizing fuel prices?

[P.O.E.]

Grenada’s a pretty quiet place, but it is close by....

[DogBarkTree]

“Lets not get carried away. Moving tanks & troops to the border doesn’t mean they are ever going to cross the border. It’s probably just a lot of bluster.”
There were those who said that when Saddam did this to Kuwait.

[Fox_Mulder77]

“We’ve just got to remember that Chavez is a loudmouthed bully that likes making outlandish remarks.”

You may be right. It would be a mistake to create policy based on that thought, though.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

For just a moment, imagine 10 battalions of the mexican military sent to our border. How would that strike you?

Does Mexico have ten battalions? Could the leadership get them headed in one direction?