Posted on 07/03/2008 6:15:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
War On Terror: A foreign country puts its men on the line to rescue American hostages and pulls off one of the greatest rescues in history. Might a little gratitude from Congress be in order?
In the wake of the rescue, Democrats' caricature of Colombia as a night-haunted right-wing dictatorship, a la 1976 Guatemala, looks increasingly hollow.
The American contractors were taken hostage during a coca-spraying mission in 2003. Their flimsy aircraft went down in the jungle after their engine failed with no backup. One of their colleagues, Thomas Janis, was shot dead by FARC on the spot as he destroyed classified documents, and Luis Cruz, a Colombian on the same mission, was tortured to death.
In his 2005 book "Imperial Grunts," Robert D. Kaplan writes that the survivors were then lost to the jungle as crucial time was lost in the initial hours of the accident because of Clinton-era restrictions on U.S. engagement.
So Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell spent five years with brutal terrorists tied up in the jungle with little hope. Last week's rescue ended that nightmare, and today the longest-held American hostages are free.
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Why thank you!
I find your hurling out insane charges more disgusting than Indian food wrapped in babies’ used diaper.
With an ultra paranoid mind like yours, I am sure you find them in everywhere. Must be tough to have your little world overrun by trolls. LOL!
My wife just bought a Juanes CD.
FWIW, I spent a couple of months in Bogota. It's a great place, the folks are very warm and affectionate. It has problems, but so do we.
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