Reply #65: The last time FARC tried to go legit and political, they all got slaughtered by

[Peace Patriot]

Colombia's rightwing paramilitaries who are closely tied to the government and the rich pigs and their global corporate predator pals who own everything.

It is not an option for FARC, except by means of a brokered peace--which is what the Presidents of Venezuela, Ecuador, France and Argentina were trying to do...when Bushbot Uribe crashed in with bombings and troops, guided by U.S. surveillance, and slaughtered the chief FARC hostage negotiator and 20 some others in their sleep.

See my comment (#113) at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2965329


This wearisome Freeper point--why don't they just release all the hostages (and get nuked)?-- has been repeated, nearly word for word over there by some very like-minded CIA/AP re-typist. I won't repeat all of my reply here, except to say that it's a FORTY-plus year CIVIL WAR! Get it? Both sides have done harm--but, according to all human rights groups, the bulk of the harm has been done by Colombian security forces and paramilitaries--horrendous slaughters and tortures of thousands of innocent people, not just combatants. You have to understand WHY there is a FARC in Colombia, before you can understand anything else about this long, long conflict...and before you can understand why good governments want to broker a peace, and bad governments do not.