VHeadline commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: When U.S. President George W. Bush accused Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias of being friendly with the FARC rebels of Colombia he overlooked a very important part of the history of the United States of America.
Both France and Holland were friendly with and armed the American Colonial rebels under their leader George Washington, during the American Revolution.
So, indeed the U.S. has its own history of rebels.
So what' so wrong with Chavez being friendly with rebels in Colombia? If there was nothing wrong with George Washington being a rebel, why should FARC be treated any differently by the Bush administration? Surely, one rebel is as good as another, is that not so?
Unless of course, the George W. Bush looks at some issues, quite differently, and who is involved in a rebellion, and their nationality, not whether their cause is just or not?
Again staring us in the face is the double standards at work in U.S. foreign policy.
Thus, no one should pay any heed to the inane ravings of the leader of the U.S., George W. Bush.
Kenneth T. Tellis
kenttellis@rogers.com
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??????????? hey genius when the american rebels fought the american revolution, they werent funding it through the largest cocaine production in the world! but farc can ! so chavez can continue to support cocaine and farc and bush should mind his own damn business right? please think more in-depth before jumping on the bandwagon of bush haters!
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