Terrorists are terrorists. Whether they kill in the name of Allah or in the name of a godless religion named communism.
Colombia has been fighting a war for nearly half a century with the FARC--a particularly vile and violent organization that believes in Marxist-Leninism and will kill, kidnap (Americans included) and generally anything thing else if it helps them attain their goals.
FARC has been shored up in recent years by Hugo Chavez's oil wealth (some say to the tune of $300-million), Daniel Ortega and other communist regimes in the region. Colombia now faces Venezuelan troops on one border, Ecuadoran troops on the other and now Nicaragua smells blood:
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced Thursday that he is breaking off relations with Colombia because of his country's opposition to the Colombian raid on a guerrilla base in Ecuador.Taste the sweet irony of the moment, folks. Daniel Ortega--a man who used covert means to take out rivals--is accusing another government of terrorism and protecting those who are actually perpetrating terrorism. Ortega led a rebellion that killed thousands.
Ortega announced his decision publicly after meeting with Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, who is on a multination tour in the region to rally opposition to Colombia's action, which killed the No. 2 commander of the Colombian FARC guerrilla group and 23 other Colombian guerrillas.
"We are breaking off relations because of the political terrorism being carried out by the government of Alvaro Uribe, not because of the Colombian people," Ortega said.
The US is backing Colombia and rightly so; when a neighboring nation harbors those who've killed thousands in your own country, the Colombian version of the Bush Doctrine applies. Ecuador was harboring a terror leader and the Colombians warned them not to, when they continued, they took the scumbag out.
Terrorism is terrorism, regardless of the ideology behind it.
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A pretty realistic blog. To get the whole story of what happened in the lead up to 9/11 read a book called THE TERROR TIMELINE by Paul Thompson and The Center for Cooperative Research. Pakistan was involved. There was a tsunami of forwarnings to the Bushies,as described in another great book,THE COMMISSION, by Philip Shenon. Reality uber alle!
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