Posted on 03/03/2008 3:34:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The US should have intervened the day Chavez was elected. I never understood why the CIA didn’t take care of this guy. It was apparent from the day he took office that he was going to cause this kind of trouble.
No, I don’t list Columbia as our best ally. With your same reasoning, I suppose you’d place Australia and England below Columbia? Give Columbia another decade or so and then I might move them above the mid-mark.
The CIA has a lot of honorable and good men and women. It also has a lot of traitors. I wish the good guys could boot the bad ones.
Israel did handle its neighbors by itself in 2 wars,
Wrong.
Israel cannot wage a major war without massive U.S. logistical support.
Six Day War:
Yom Kippur War:
In the Yom Kippur War, Operation Nickel Grass dwarfed the Berlin Airlift.
Nickel Grass: The airlift that saved Israel
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"Amateurs talk about strategy, dilettantes talk about tactics, and professionals talk about logistics."
Colombia is a great country which absolutely loves the US and has supported us in the efforts to end the drug war. I’ve been there a number of times and love the place.
Why, because many of the people of that corrupt country smuggle hundred of tons of dope into America as a matter of routine, and because they import illegal aliens and violent gangs into America?
The US is hoping that President Chavez known for making extravagant claims is on no more than a sabre-rattling exercise
Personally, I hope that he is deadly serious and primed for action.
I would not give those tanks 48 hours. Our planes will decimate them if they cross over into Columbia.
I stand corrected, except the part about the Liberty.
Very true. The other side of that is that the Soviets were providing similar logistical support to the Egyptians and Syrians.
With predictable results.
Has chavez bought any TOR-M1’s on his buying spree with russia?
They want us spread thin!
Please read Post #21.
Speculated? That's your argument?
... the U.S. has an opportunity to get rid of Chavez once and for all.....all they have to do is stir the pot a little.
I think that most of the people down there wouldn't shed many tears to find out that Chavez's time is up, either.
Are you suggesting Colombia is not a corrupt country, and that the corruption has not been directly linked to the highest levels of their government AND military?
And we once belonged to England. Things change.
“Ya know, it’s been speculated that 1/3 of the entire Colombian budget is stolen every year and ends up in the wrong hands.”
And you think this is unusual in latin america, or most of the world for that matter?
What % of the US budget do you think ends up in the wrong hands?
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