Colombia Shows Mexico How To Do It

IBD Editorials ^ | September 23, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

[Kaslin]

Victory: Colombia's army blew away the field marshal of FARC's narco-terror war Wednesday, showing with a jolt that to win, it's terrorists who must "absorb" attacks, not innocents. Mexico and the U.S. have much to learn.

Seems the adage that Colombia is the only country where guerrillas die of old age isn't true anymore.

On Thursday, Colombia celebrated news of the demise of Jorge Briceno, military commander and second-highest chief of FARC. The 57-year-old terrorist went down in a hail of bombs and gunfire over three days in a jungle bunker near La Macarena.

The Colombian army suffered no deaths and left at least 20 guerrillas dead on the jungle floor. Briceno's demise marks the fourth knockout of FARC's seven-man "Politburo"since 2008.

"This is the most crushing blow against the FARC in its entire history," said Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, speaking from the sidelines at the United Nations in New York.

To every other nation out there fighting a terror war, it's a lesson showing how it can be done.

First, it shows that in winning, history and continuity matter to the enemy. FARC, a Marxist terror group, has plagued Colombia since 1964. Briceno joined in 1975 and introduced cocaine trafficking to FARC's activities, extending the war.

[B4Ranch]

That certainly is what I would consider a factual but blood and guts website.

[livius]

Mexico actually was a functioning country for a long time, and despite the fact that it was technically a socialist country, managed to keep its head above water and supported the US heavily, particularly during WWII.

However, 60 years of what would be in US terms Democratic Party politics and policies brought it to stagnation. When the conservative party won, they had a flake candidate, Fox, but that merely shows you how desperate Mexicans were for a change. Calderon is also from the conservative party, and Obama has absolutely no intention of supporting him.

Troops from VZ were found in Mexico about three years ago, and Mexico is under heavy attack from the left. A large number, if not the majority, of those entering the US illegally from Mexico are not Mexicans, but have been brought up from South America or from landing places in South America (accounting for the many Chinese and Arabs who are among them).

Mexico is actually building a fence on its Guatemalan border to keep these people out, although the Yucatan Peninsula and other lower coastal areas of Mexico are so wild that it is easy for people to infiltrate by boat.

It’s time to take a realistic look at Mexico. It is pivotal to the leftist attack on the US. The current Mexican government is trying to fight back, but we’re not offering anywhere near the support we did to Colombia because we have a leftist in office and for many, many years even before him, leftists have dominated our Mexican policy.

[Cindy]

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