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Interesting post! I hope this forum will rise again since the BFC is over and done with and pretty much has been for a long time.
I have not done my Asia tour yet, but I am semi-retired and plan on Thailand, Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam and now that you mention it, probably Myannmar. If for nothing else; to honor COL KKW and “Rally the Rohinga.”
Can you give me some generalities about a visit to the capital? Is there a decent bar scene/food at least?
Good luck and thanks for the post. Nice surprise to see you back.
No. The “Peace Process” is a bit of a sham. About 25% of the FARC de-mob’d. But that was like when the Para’s demob’d. The weapons turned in were non-functional pieces of shit while the good ones were cached or sold. Thosuands that did this have headed back to the hills and withdrawn from the program.
Calls to prosecute FARC LDRs for war crimes run high. Only thing stopping it is that GOV forces might have to answer for theirs.
There is obviously plenty of manpower from refugees from VZ to fill any gaps and the GOV didn’t deliver on aid to the countryside as promised. Shocker there.
The one thing holing things at status quo is that after teh cross border raid into Ecuador, most of the FARC senior leadership has been captured/killed. There is no one unifying command and control structure at present, so their are independent fronts. This allows the GOV to wait for the much reduced targeting required when somebody triess to stop up and fill that gap and they get smoked. Economy of force.
GOV forces are far better and stronger than in days gone by. The Gs will always be there, but it will never get as bad as it was. Had they shifted some funding from the kinetic (i.e., killing) part of Plan Colombia to development in the interior regions, things would have gotten better.
The people are war weary and very much against violence of any type. The ELN is alive and well. They are smaller, but were always far more proficient than the FARC. Cartels keep a low profile and are regional powers more than any one unified force like the Medellin/Cali cartels were and that’s how it’s going to stay.
Cool! I am still pretty happy in Latin America and a shame, I saw Dogtanian was in town while I was herer, but, being banned and all, lol. I still in Penta like fashion view the site every now and then in some perverse interest. Such a cadre of good guys for a while. Old Pelton as Jack Nicholson says: Can’t Hand the Truth!”
PS: I CAN CATCH FREE US MIL FLIGHTS TO RAAF OUTSIDE SYDNEY. ARE YOU IN SYDNEY?
LOL; thanks for the vote of confidence Rob.
Yes, I am to a degree, but after 30-35, you really aren’t out there kicking doors and stuff. You become and OPs/INT guy, wear many hats.
I move into my place tomorrow and as I settle, I can start writing some stuff for your board. Colombia will be a first; then I want to look at Ukraine vs Russia.
The articles will take time and be professional products. I think we can get some of the pros like Nowonmai and a couple others back on here and I look forward to it.
How are you doing there Wildman?
On a US Passport makes zero difference. I ran airport security in a few countries and post 911, its all mostly the same. America is
for obvious reasons more concerned than most (i.e., we are the #1 target).As far as tourism goes, I see them all the time here and there is no critical shortage.
I always got a kick out of close to two decades abroad how many people hated the USA and were in line for a Visa to move here.
I have to admit to the cross dressing. Just last week, I outgrew some Levis and gave them to my little brother and on the same week, raided my fathers dresser for some clean socks.
Now what exactly did you have in mind over in Londonistan or in the Fortress of Solitude?
And you’re right again about the girls lining up. My barber told me this one girl was out of my league, so I started bowling on Saturday nights instead of Thursdays nights (its a womans league on Saturday) and they all line up at 7PM sharp. I’d invite you to try it, but I don’t think anyone would like you to be honest with you. Don’t guess you can bowl in the 2 dimensional fortress anyways.
Well, thats all for now folks!
Hey Rob! Glad you like my cousins down there!
LOL, see kids, it would have shown my:
IN UH BILL A TEE 2 DIS TEENG WISH BEE TWEEN A COMMUNIST AND A SUPPORTER OF COMMUNISTS!
Don’t look at it in the eyes kids, lets go see the alligators now, they’re kind of cute and cuddly all things uh considered given the uh, current situation.
And that cross dressing thing? Uh, down here we have somehthing called cross burnings. Ya’ll grab yu’r comrades and come on down some time once you escape the fortress of solitude
But heres one for you that you could knit a nice Tie Dye Sweater out of after you take a nice healty hand full of PROZAC (TM) and cup of “Camo Meal”. Or is that Camel Meal?
I had tried reasonably hard to put your face avatar as the foreground and the old hammer and sycle you still cling to, but it took up too much bandwith. People dutifully offered to do it for me, but I moved on to a possible General Stroessner theme and am still thinking on an entire spectrum of options while occassionally viewing you post to yourself; trapped, like the criminals imprisoned by Jorel in the 2 dimensional hell in Superman, only to be freed by Lex Luthor or possibly Kurt in a drunken and irresponsible stupor.
Hopefully, there will be no kryptonite in the future or in Kurts drinks, and we can occassionally glimpse at you here, much as an ant colony or a hypnotized chicken on a South Carolina farm that draws amusement for a few seconds, then a yawn as people move along to the next episode of Swamp People or other more worthy pursuit.
So snuffle up to the edge of the cage, craving for a peanut or some form of attention; positive or otherwise and know that the True Son of the Golden Land declares you as an example to the children of Myanmar of why we shun the overstimulated housewife.
That is all. Move along children.
Classic highlights from one of “she who speaks to herself” lines:
Among the other alleged plotters in Dubai were various businessmen who, it is said, were former members of the army death squad known as Battalion 316. The papers, handed over by a bartender who thought Valenzuela was part of the group, supposedly included the draft decree that would be used to destitute Zelaya, and according to Valenzuela was going to be taken to the US ambassador in Honduras for his comments. Valenzuela also said he knew who forged the president’s signature on Zelaya’s ‘letter of resignation’. […] Unfortunately, Valenzuela is unable to elaborate a
There you have it, the cold hard, uh, maybes, and well, a bartender thought, uh, but was unable to elaborate, that Fred said, Tony heard a guy who was drunk, who saw a muskrat, of course, all of this was according to an unknown person before the muskrat was run over by a car……
