floundersgreatadventure

Yesterday I wrote some more about history and we dealt with some of the violence Colombia has experienced; well it just got some more over the last few days. It seems the FARC decided to bomb a couple of police stations one on the coast where 9people died and 76 were injured mostly civilians and then again near Cali where 6 died (only one was a policeman) and some forty were injured. I read a comment from someone on Yahoo that said they had learned well from their teachers the IRA. I don’t know that they were actually taught by The IRA but their tactics seem to be the same profess sympathy for the people and then go out and kill them. All that I’ve read or seen in the last few years says that whatever good intentions these rebel groups started out with they are nothing more than bandits and terrorist now. They go around and rob banks not so they can help the poor but so they can buy more guns to kill innocents. I have no delusions that there’s still a political agenda that these groups are following if there is it’s that of dictatorship. I also realize that the government needs to do much more for it poor and they need to supply shelter for the homeless a lot of whom are victims of the Cocaine wars that have plagued this country in the last few years. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m preaching or lecturing but I’ve been alive long enough to see that the only people that get hurt in so called revolutions are the ones that can least afford it . Colombia has a chance to be the gem of the Americas something Chavez would love to accomplish in his country but is unlikely to sense he’s leaning to dictatorship. Colombia is growing economically maybe not as fast as everyone would like but still growing if they don’t make stupid mistakes and forget here poor they will soon find themselves perched to make history on the world stage. Ciao