{"id":1181,"date":"2008-02-08T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/secure-our-borders-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:19:26","slug":"secure-our-borders-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Secure our borders! Yesterday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this morning’s Washington Times, Sara Carter (quickly becoming one of my favorite reporters over there) writes that “US Foes target Latin America<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Iran, Cuba and Venezuela are working together against the U.S. by undermining democracy in Latin America, allowing trafficking of illegal drugs and creating safe havens for extremist groups, intelligence officials said.<\/p>\n

Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday, National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said that influence from the three countries \u00e2\u20ac\u201d led respectively by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has spilled into Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador, which “are pursuing agendas that undercut checks and balances” of democratic governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She goes on to write;<\/p>\n

“We’ve known for some time that Islamic extremists groups were gaining momentum and exploiting the region,” said one U.S. federal law-enforcement official, on the condition of anonymity, who worked drug operations in Central America. “Iran is no exception \u00e2\u20ac\u201d now with Cuba and Venezuela, the door is open.”<\/p>\n

Web sites advocating Hezbollah and other Islamic extremist groups in Central America are used to recruit members and espouse extremist ideology.<\/p>\n

On one Web page \u00e2\u20ac\u201d now removed from the Internet \u00e2\u20ac\u201d “Hezbollah Latin America” displayed photographs of members, with their faces covered and weapons raised. The Web site contained links to Hezbollah group members in Venezuela, El Salvador, Argentina and as north as Chiapas, Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regular readers of this blog will remember the link to Jungle Mom<\/a> that I’ve posted several times over the past several months referring to Hezbollah influence among the indigenous people of Venezuela’s interior after Chavez forced Christian missionaries out of the country.<\/p>\n

Unless we build the wall and start enforcing border securing, these Latins influenced by terrorist organizations will have the ability to blend into our own population and strike without a bit of hinderance.<\/p>\n

If that’s not terrifying enough for you, try this;<\/p>\n

In 2005, Venezuela became a major transient route for South American \u00e2\u20ac\u201d predominantly Colombian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d cocaine destined for the U.S. market and it continues to grow, U.S. intelligence officials said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Chavez’s lack of counterdrug cooperation “undermines efforts by other countries, particularly Colombia, by giving traffickers access to alternative routes and transit points Chavez is likely to remain unengaged on the counternarcotics front unless the drug trade is perceived to damage his international image or threaten his political longevity,” Mr. McConnell said.”Military cooperation between Tehran and Caracas is growing,” Mr. McConnell testified. “There are growing signs of anxiety among Venezuela’s neighbors about this military buildup.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coca-chewing Chavez and crackhead Ahmadinjad supplying our own drug addicts with druga and using the money against us (where are all of those Libertarians who say that drug use is a personal preference and don’t harm society).<\/p>\n

But any war against drugs must be prefaced with secure borders. It’ll be up to the next president since this one has been a bit out-to-lunch on that one. And it’ll take a sturdily-spined Congress to force the next Administration to do what needs to be done.<\/p>\n

As it stands now, the only people willing to stand up to Chavez and his cronies seems to be Exxon-Mobil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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