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Originally Posted by DeepIron
Ok Chavez is a blustering, sabre-rattling buffoon... But I don't count him out yet...
What concerns me is this, (speculating) IF Chavez does start a military incident in Columbia, how is the US going to respond? We are heavily committed in the Middle East and Afghanistan in the "War on Terror". Our military reserves are almost spent... We will be hardpressed to make a show of it in SA, an area in which we have been accused of ignoring in our foreign policy for years.
Failure to respond will only discredit us some more and could add support to regimes hostile to US and other democratic governments in SA.
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Start an airlift of military supplies, park a squadron or two of F-15's and A-10's with support elements at their airport, and send in some SF advisors and FAC's.
That will send the message. We'll get flack for war mongering from supporters of Chavez but we can live with that.