Reply #14: Yeah, I don't think it will be like the 1980s-- for one thing... [View All]

[kenny blankenship]

Latin America has had enough of our meddling in their political destinies and choices. There has been a respite in that starting in the Clinton years (not perfect, but better than Reagan-Bush) and during that time a lot of development has taken place. For another thing, our intertwining with that region is far more advanced now in every way than before. We might not be able to have "secret" wars down there today and expect it to stay contained to the victim country like we could in the 80s. There are a lot more Latin American nationals and expats here in this country now too. There's a lot of traffic over the borders daily. It used to be rigidly compartmentalized and now it's a lot more fluid. A "secret" war down there could spill over onto our cities. It could also set fire to Mexico, a country that is already smoking in various places, which if it caught fire would definitely burn our asses up here! (Of course, the wars of the 1980s were not at all secret to the Latin American victims, only hidden to the oblivious American citizens who funded them--that ability to keep it hidden and quiet won't happen again.) We could develop a problem with Latin American terrorism waged against our war policies--a problem on our American soil--like the one we worry about so much with Muslims and Arabs.
It's one thing for the United States to be pantsshitting paranoid about Muslims (and Muslim Terrorists) who are rather few in number in our hemisphere. It's really a mountain made from a molehill. However, if we were to stumble, through more of Bushler's idiocy, into a situation where we are also suddenly seeing Latin American Terrorists behind every bush or hotdog stand, this country will flat-out cease to function.