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Marksman_91

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1. Santos is naive. You can't negotiate with narcoterrorists.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2015, 08:57 PM

Apr 2015

On one thing I certainly agree with Uribe, they should've just kept fighting them and treat them like the criminals they are. After all, they are an insurgency which wishes to overthrow the current government. But of course, none of the Chavistas here would dare say they are instigating a coup.

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Colombia lifts bombing truce after Farc attack in Cauca [View all] Eugene Apr 2015 OP

Santos is naive. You can't negotiate with narcoterrorists. Marksman_91 Apr 2015 #1

You should take the time to start looking for the facts about Colombia's history. Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #2

Your demi-god Fidel was suspected of complicity in the 1948 assassination of Jorge Gaitán Zorro Apr 2015 #4

Suspected by whom? That's a hot one! Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #10

Super good ending to the article excerpted above: Judi Lynn Apr 2015 #11

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The paramilitaries are a problem, but that's not what I'm discussing Marksman_91 Apr 2015 #7

that is exactly what they are demanding though as a condition for peace Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #9

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she supports the FARC of course. The killing, raping, murder, extortion, land minds, Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #14

So I call her a terrorist symphathizer on another thread she posted Marksman_91 Apr 2015 #16

You clearly had more than enough chances to respond to my question Marksman_91 Apr 2015 #15

they have little popular support other than marxist keyboard morons Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #5

It's honestly insane how they're hoping to get some sort of amnesty Marksman_91 Apr 2015 #6

Yeah, Colombians certainly wouldn't mind if they did that Bacchus4.0 Apr 2015 #8

Gee, who could have predicted this? nt bemildred Apr 2015 #3