... in response to Full control in Colombia, posted by DallasSteve2 on Aug 22, 2003The below statements are the type that turn these types of threads into nonsense and the reason why politics in any country can't be discussed on this board. Why? Because these statements draw ludicrious conclusions and are making uninformed generalizations. And, the soultion proposed by these statements are to simply pay and reward the "leaders of the FARC" by giving them safe passage out of the country when they have murdered tens of thousand of Colombians over the year.
I don't know about you, but I have a little more respect for the Colombian people who have lived with these knuckleheads for over 40 years and haven't given into them yet. To just pay the knuckleheads off and simply let them go is just a slap in their face and an insult to all the people who have died here by the farc.
I might sound a little fanatical about this, but I have been in Colombia in some form or fashion since '89 and I know some people that have been killed by the farc over the years. When I read stuff like the below statements, I think that the person who wrote it just wants his Colombian wife and get the heck away from the country and to heck with the country. A piece of advice, if you marry a Colombiana, you aren't going to seperate the two.
Just my early morning rant.
"The only way to dry up the FARC is to cut off their income which means legalizing drugs. Our country won't do that so the cycle will continue"
"I've wondered if the government could solve the problem by cutting a secret deal with the leaders of the FARC. Offer them each a few million dollars and passage out of the country. It would be cheaper than what they're spending on the war. But it probably wouldn't work because those guys are living like kings on the drug money, plus they've got hot and cold running beautiful, young Colombian women. Sounds like a program to me."
