Columbian leftists target US military
I've often wondered why there isn't more of this coming from South America.
Most of the political complaints of the middle eastern terror groups, US military presence, economic/foreign policy, propping up unpopular governments are just as present in South/Central America as they are in the middle east, and yet there really is no South American terror problem.
My guess is that they lack the extra-state region wide structures that the Islamic countries find through their religious identification. The only approximate the Latin Americans ever had were the nascent socialists movements that were targeted and crushed.
(Plus, there's no Israel/Palestine and no effort by the US to build up fundamentalist structures like early Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.)
I've always been curious about this.
Colombian police foiled a plot by leftist rebels to attack U.S. military advisers at a popular vacation resort near the capital, a government official and the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday.
Police said they arrested three men in Melgar with explosives and a photograph of a diplomatic vehicle on Saturday.
Most of the political complaints of the middle eastern terror groups, US military presence, economic/foreign policy, propping up unpopular governments are just as present in South/Central America as they are in the middle east, and yet there really is no South American terror problem.
My guess is that they lack the extra-state region wide structures that the Islamic countries find through their religious identification. The only approximate the Latin Americans ever had were the nascent socialists movements that were targeted and crushed.
(Plus, there's no Israel/Palestine and no effort by the US to build up fundamentalist structures like early Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.)
I've always been curious about this.
posted by mikevotes at
9:37 PM
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I think you found the answers to your curiosity. The Israel/Palestine conflict is responsible for much Islamic terrorism, and our bias towards Israel has dragged us into that mess. They also consider our presence on their land an affront, and their religion calls for all members, regardless of country, to defend against it.
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Anonymous, at 9:16 AM
It's just always intrigued me because the South Central Americans have suffered exactly the same policies that have driven the Islamic resistance.
I think the religious factor is big in that it allows a vehicle through which Muslims can find a justification "beyond law" for their violence.
And, there really isn't a unifying anger within Latin America. Ther intercountry problems keep them from a sense of common identity.
And, Israel/Palestine does fuel it alot. It is a longstanding, unresolved issue from the Arab/Islamic side that transcends nationalities and can be used as an inflaming cause.
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mikevotes, at 11:43 AM
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