Having read that John McCain was in-country at the time of the Colombian rescue, or just before it, I shouldn’t have been surprised to learn, from the Greenville paper, that Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman were there, too. An excerpt:
The setting seemed appropriate for conspiratorial murmurings, a sort of New World "Casablanca," in a Spanish colonial era seaside fortress inside a 475-year-old city that long ago outgrew its old walls.
"Right before we went into dinner, President Uribe grabbed me and said he had something to tell me and Sen. McCain and Sen. Lieberman, so I went and got John and Joe," Graham told The Greenville News.
Graham said that Uribe and Colombia’s defense minister, Juan Manuel Santos, eased them away from the dining area into a quiet corner. It was around 8 p.m. when Santos briefed the trio, saying, "We’re going to initiate a hostage rescue tonight," and went on to describe how government agents had infiltrated the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Graham recalled…
Yet another adventure of the Three Amigos, last seen hanging with Gordon at No. 10.
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Sometimes the cynic in me just can’t help but wonder. Do our leaders, especially those of the imperialistic persuasion, intentionally find ways to put people in harms way so that at some future time they can be used for a photo op. The men who were recently rescued from Colombia really had no business interfering in the internal politics of Colombia. And now that they’re rescued we have an opportunity to celebrate and wave the flag a bit.
Of course the disaster of Iraq is one huge opportunity to celebrate the American soldier as he is portrayed as a defender of our security and demmocratic way of life. Never mind that missions like these have nothing to do with freedom, democracy or anything else that we cherish. The very fact that we send troops into harms way for no apparent reason suggests that our leaders must feel that they can benefit in some round about way. Otherwise why lie about the causes for silly foreign covert actions and wars the way the Bush Administration did about Iraq in 2002/03. Now we cannot criticize the war or the interventionist policies of Colombia for fear of being branded non-supportive of the troops. Cynically speaking you have to wonder.
+1. Who more? 🙂