DoktorNo:
European friends of the FARC are angry. How dare Colombia join the ranks of Britain, Israel, and the United States by refusing to negotiate with terrorists?
America and Britain were badly served in the 70s and 80s by swallowing the Israeli line that violent political resistance was only a criminal activity, had no legitimacy, and “never, ever negotiate”.
The Jews in fact did plenty of negotiating with terrorists when it suited them. And used terrorism themselves regularly to establish the Zionist State. They even helped create Hamas as a counter to Arafat.
The Brits, past masters of setting one faction against another faction and by doing so leaving British rule unchallenged, had a brief period under Thatcherism of “never negotiate” – no support of African teror groups that were basically armed liberators, letting IRA prisoners starve to death. Wisely supplanted by better, less blindly dogmatic policies that returned the UK to old practical divide and conquer strategy – or, wrongly, to moral equivalency and multi-culti on the Left.
America has always been fine negotiating with State terrorism or insurgent terrorists or “appeasing them” as long, as they are on our side – like the Cuban Exile Brigade, the Holy Mujahadeen Freedom Fighters Reagan loved so much, now the Iraqi Sunni “terrorists” that killed a few thousand of “Bush’s heroes” before flipping and coming on our side after negotiations and bribes.
