Fight FARC A necessary OAS priority.

cali373 says on Mar 17, 2008, 14:58:

I dont see this as a OAS priority, but more of a priority of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Historically when a country got involved in another country´s internal civil conflict, it has not turned out to be a good decision (Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam).

Whether we like it or not the FARC, Paramilitaries, and ELN are COLOMBIANS! and this confict is Colombia´s to fight and not other countries.

Smile if you are a thinker!

sloopskipper says on Mar 17, 2008, 18:38:

Yes, but, they hide in other countries, and are sheltered by them!

cali373 says on Mar 17, 2008, 20:30:

Which is why I said more of a priority of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. As far as sheltered well by the jungle, yeah of course, why else would they be there. Officially by the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela, well I bet Bush and Uribe would love it if that was true, but its not. too bad for them.

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bamacellist says on Mar 17, 2008, 21:02:

It would be very appropriate for the OAS to develop official statements of support for the government of Colombia as well as protocols for assistence in sharing police and intelligence information as well as cooperation in pursuing suspects and leads. It would also be apporpriate for it to demand compliance of its member nations, in particularly relating to not supporting or assisting the Farc. It makes sense insofar as the Farc is attempting to overthrow a democratically elected member govenment and that it operates a multi-national drug and money-laundering operation and is involved in international arms procuement. These are some ot the things that multi-national organizations exist to deal with.

The statement about "officially" supporting seems a little silly to me. What does that mean? Official policy is not always the same as unofficial policy and there can be good or bad reasons for this, but governments need to be held accountable for unofficial policy, too. Furthermore, appearances of wrongdoing should stimulate scrutiny and nobody should get too upset about having to give honest answers to honest questions.

"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

Mr. Hollywood says on Mar 18, 2008, 10:57:

Pardon my ignorance, but what has the OAS ever done? I vaguely recall some peacekeeping role in Nicaragua or El Salvador but it's hardly been an activist organization that I can remember.

Sam Salmon says on Mar 18, 2008, 17:01:

The OAS is typical of the sort of paper tiger that Latin America is so in love with-it doesn't have to actually do anything just provide jobs for has beens and a forum for leaders to blow off steam every so often.

Who's ever heard of Parlacen the Central American Paliament?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_Parliament

' a la orden!'

billyb says on Mar 18, 2008, 21:37:

"The statement about "officially" supporting seems a little silly to me. What does that mean? Official policy is not always the same as unofficial policy and there can be good or bad reasons for this, but governments need to be held accountable for unofficial policy, too."

Bama, took the words out of my mouth.