Rumsfeld Broaches Touchy Issue of Latam Militaries

[Moloch]

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has urged Latin American states to do more to fight terrorism, on Wednesday raised the touchy issue of using the military to combat terrorism and organized crime.

Rumsfeld, in a speech to a meeting of Western Hemisphere defense ministers in Quito, broached the subject cautiously, saying each country must decide carefully how to approach it.

Many of the countries in the region have restored democracy only in recently after long periods of human rights abuses under military rule and are wary of giving their armed forces a greater role in domestic security. Argentina, for example, has barred the armed forces from local policing.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/nm/20041117/pl_nm/security_latam_rumsfeld_dc

[bemildred]

1. Yeah, I'll bet Dumbsfeld is very anxious to "help" those militaries, too,

fight their problems with "terrorism" and "organized crime".

[aquart]

2. Nothing scares BushCo like democracy.

That's why they eliminated it at home.

[cliss]

3. He's so believable, trustworthy.

And Donald RumsFailed carries such authority, at his advanced age.

I love the way they word these articles. 'Broaches', sounds like jumps in with both fees, 'bulldozes', or 'brashly' interferes in other countries' issues.

Of course, RumsFool is the director of several arms suppliers, so...."Care to make a deal?"

[damntexdem]

4. If Latin American militaries were seriously interested in ...

the war on terror, they would invade the United States.