Ecuador / Venezuela Mobilizing Batallions Against Colombia

hopefully before war we will have our border secure so we don't get much overspill.

 

I never wonder. Its because we have air conditioning.

 

Someone's auditioning to join tj in the clown car.

 

How many assclowns can you fit in a Ford Econoline?

 

RG, best wishes to you and your family. Please do not take too seriously people who get to act like six-year olds behind their computers and anonymity. I also encourage you to use the "ignore" list function, so certain posters will not appear to you.

One reason this is my only BBS is the fascinating international community we have. I did not know we were represented in Columbia!

When I was a wee little scientist, I had a collaborator in Israel, a mentor really. We were exchanging emails (in the earliest days of email, actually) about our research topic, and there was a long pause, and then he described huddling with his family on the living room floor, with everyone wearing gas masks. I just try to remember that everytime our horrible news media tries to make a little video game out of problems far from our (for now) comfortable homes.

Anyway, best wishes to you.

 

Couldn't agree more, B-Bob. One thing this election business has done is bring some folks to D&D that otherwise might not have popped in, and this business with Chavez, Columbia, and Ecuador has pulled in Rocket Guard. I hope they stick around and broaden the discussions from the "usual suspects." (I include myself in the lineup, of course!)




Impeach Bush and Save Us from being Force Fed Canadian Bacon!!!

 

yeah dude, war is totally awesome!

 

It will be interesting to see if this more than just the next level of insult in the currently escalating war of words.

After the Colombians said they had documents on Chavez/FARC ties, Venezuela said they had documents that showed that the Colombian police chief is a narco-trafficker so this might be more back and forth. But given that Chavez and the FARC have both expressed mutual philosophical kinship in the past, and Chavez has described the killed rebels as "good revolutionaries" I don't think it is a completely absurd idea to think that Chavez might be giving significant material support to the FARC.

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Uribe to denounce Chavez in court in Andes crisis

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Tuesday he would denounce Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in international court in a growing Andean dispute after Venezuela and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Bogota and ordered troops to their neighbor's frontier.

Colombia has accused Chavez and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa of links to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC guerrillas and the crisis was triggered by a raid by Colombian troops inside Ecuador to kill a top guerrilla boss.

"Colombia proposes to denounce the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez in the International Criminal Court for sponsoring and financing genocide," Uribe told reporters.

Venezuela began restricting Colombian commercial traffic on some points on its frontier as the crisis began to take its toll on the $6-billion-a-year bilateral trade between the two countries, witnesses and businesses in Venezuela said.

Latin American countries scrambled to defuse the spat, which threatened regional stability. The Organization of the American States (OAS), the region's top diplomatic body, was to meet in Washington to press for a peaceful solution.

Correa arrived in Peru on Tuesday to start a five-nation tour of the region -- including to leftist ally Venezuela -- to lobby for support against what he calls a premeditated violation of sovereignty.

"This is not a bilateral problem, it's a regional problem," Correa told Mexican television. "Should this set a precedent, Latin America will become another Middle East."

Latin American governments generally lined up to condemn Uribe, a key Washington ally, for sending troops and warplanes over the border on Saturday in an attack on a jungle camp that killed Raul Reyes, a senior FARC rebel.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the three countries to exercise restraint and address their concerns "in the spirit of dialogue and cooperation that has traditionally characterized their relations," his spokeswoman said in a statement issued in Geneva just before he left for New York.

Major powers such as France and the United States, as well as U.S. presidential candidates, also urged diplomacy to defuse the tensions.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has negotiated the release this year of rebel hostages, called the guerrilla leader's death a "cowardly assassination" by a U.S.-backed president who did not want more captives freed.

Chavez and Correa expelled Colombia's diplomats from their capitals on Monday.

Colombia also fueled the tensions by accusing Chavez of funding Latin America's oldest insurgency -- a charge denied by the anti-U.S. president's aides.

Despite the three leaders' brinkmanship and the risk of military missteps, political analysts said a conflict was unlikely on borders that stretch from parched desert through Andean mountains and jungles to the Pacific Ocean.

Chavez, the leader of a growing bloc of Latin American leftist presidents, may fire up his supporters by challenging Uribe but he can ill afford to lose food imports from Colombia as he combats shortages in his OPEC nation, analysts said.

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whenever it does not involve my friends having their legs blown off it is.

War is a given. I am allowed to be happy if the next one does not involve people I know or my country.

 

If you're a sociopath.

 

It's okay to be a sociopath as long as you are comformist. Playing violent video games is okay.

 

Come on man, are you r****ded?

Playing a GAME is not the same thing as enjoying the deaths of thousands of people. Countless lives would be lost and many lives that remained would be in shambles.

 

"Only the dead have seen the end of war"

So I am hoping the next one does not involve USA. (infact that would be awesome)

 

I think most of us on this board feel that way. But I imagine 99 percent of us draw the line at actually wanting a war to happen, or looking forward to one.

 

wha....

 

Ideally that would be the case but looking at the ratings of cops, UFC, Medal of Honor, and 24hour coverage of wars it seems we are all blood thirsty.

 

Trashy TV, mixed martial arts, a video game, and the news means we're all blood thirsty?

 

in the sense that most enjoy watching violent things.

Unless you disagree (didn;t a russian kill you in front of thousands of people?)

 

But did Rocky kill Ivan Drago?

Hell no.

That's America, baby. We don't kill you, but we beat you until you love us.