We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:00:31 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification To any who might give a hoot, here are some rambling thoughts on that obscure little front on this so called Global War on Terror. BOQ... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:32 -0600 Oh, yeah, just to make my sentiments perfectly clear and evident to everyone in the whole world: The bad guys won the Whisky Rebellion. I'm talking to you, George W.! (That's "Washington", not "Walker." The current George W. is not fit to polish the Original George's boots, and everyone else who seeks the office is even worse, and I'm gonna quit now before I say what I REALLY think, and have LEOs knocking on my door. We're doomed. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70420 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70420 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:34:15 -0600 Yup, and so did the BATFEcal people, for a little while, until they got called on it. Now, _that_ was scary! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70418 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70418 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:20:29 -0600 Oh, the Forest Service has some OV-10's, I'm thinking. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70403 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70403 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:58:44 -0600 'druther have an OV-10, but they don't make 'em any more, and they've all been beaten near to death by Marines. (Nothing agin' Marines, they HAVE to use their stuff hard, they not getting very much of it, historically.) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70401 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70401 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:44:24 -0600 P.s. And that's just the ones who _haven't_ been insufflating the Andean Nasal Salts. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70399 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70399 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:24:14 -0600 Roger that, Boq- just gotta arrange an EUC and wait for my funds to arrive. I'm helping out the widow of the late Nigerian oil minister; she's gonna pay me a hefty sum for using my bank account to transfer his secret stash out of the country. Should be any day now... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70398 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70398 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:23:50 -0600 I spoke to my next-door neighbor, a Colombian, about this, and he seems right peeved. I like Colombians, but I'd be careful not to piss 'em off, too much. They'll kill you. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70397 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70397 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:17:35 -0600 For dat you'd hafta knock on the Vulgar-Bulgar's Door. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70396 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70396 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:14:50 -0600 Hmmmm. Anybody make a 37mm semi-auto Mk19 clone? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70395 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70395 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:13:35 -0600 Oh sweetness, I too am inoculated - P.C. Inoculated, that is. ;> Oh and Neff, if you are interested, I could hook you up with Embraer's Rep in Colombia. He's a Loose Cannon of Chilean descent, whom we "fondly" refer to as Cowboy. On the Mk80 Boom-boom thingies that fall from the Tucanos, they are of South African provenance. They are all flogged by a crazy gentleman of Austrian provenance - Code Named: Beetlejuice. Wanna any more? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70391 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70391 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:54:44 -0600 I see all this chest-thumping as face-saving posturing. Note to Gringo Students of Spiky Culture: Face Saving is VERY important in "Taco Land". Everything should come down to a simmer a fortnight hence. Heh. Just in case you weren't sure... Boq is a 'Rican. So he can talk like that without La Raza dumping on 'em like they would redneck me... 8^D]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70385 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70385 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:16:22 -0600 I want me one of those pesky Super Tucanos- only $5.5 mill... sigh http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70383 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70383 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:13:20 -0600 ...but the biggest objective, in my opinion to all this affair, is to innoculate other members of the FARC's Secretariat, agains neutralization. Colombia has now been put on notice that Venezuela & Ecuador will not tolerate any further incusions. Thus, the next time one of the Secretariat Members seeks refuge accross border, the should stay safe from those pesky little Tucanos. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70381 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70381 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:52:27 -0600 I see all this chest-thumping as face-saving posturing. Note to Gringo Students of Spiky Culture: Face Saving is VERY important in "Taco Land". Everything should come down to a simmer a fortnight hence. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70380 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70380 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:44:22 -0600 I think they will step off. For everything they say and do, Chavez and Bo-Bo have to know that the US will be supplying all sorts of ammunition, weapons and technology to Colombia. Further, neither of these two morons could afford the political blowback if they attacked Colombia and lost. They might as well sign their resignation letters. Then again, Chavez would use the event to purge out any "disloyal" officers. Bo-Bo, too. It's hard to say. There is also the possibility that Generalismo Chavismo could order his army somewhere and most of them don't go across the border. however, it IS South America and they DID elect Chavez and Bo-bo the clown. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70370 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/colombias_pickl.html#comment-70370 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:06:59 -0600