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Re: Fwd: Columbia


Jim Devine wrote:

> Democratic Party partisans may hope that George W. Bush gets elected US
> President, since he'll get the blame for the quagmire in Colombia, the way
> that Johnson got the blame for Vietnam ....

This will be the first revolutionary war of the last century in which the
insurgent forces have no external support. So "experts" in Washington may believe
that the precedent they are following is that of the successful crushing of
insurrections in Malaya and the Philippines during the 1950s. However it turns out
the U.S. intervention guarantees huge losses of life.

Carrol
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