The Lost Continent of South America is Truly a Lost Cause!

The Lost Continent of South America is truly a “Lost Cause”

At what point will the US wash it’s hands of South America and let them sink into the mire of Socialism they so want.

Currently the only country in all of South America, with a chance at a first world status, is Chile. Chile has an unemployment rate at around half that of the other countries sharing their continent and they are well on the way to a First World Economy. They will soon be able to compete with the big boys. And along with that will come prestige and more trade, which will only enrich Chile.

The northern countries of South America have only two moneymakers… oil and drugs. The War on Drugs is lost. We need to pull back and allow those persons bent on destroying them selves to do so as rapidly as possible and rid our societies of the leeches they have become. I have no mercy to waste on them.

So far as Venezuela is concerned, the Hugo Chavez Regime is going to collapse of it’s own weight. If that country were worth saving we would have already “liberated” it as we did Panama. It simple isn’t worth it. Their biggest export is oil and when enough Americans get angry enough to stop buying his gasoline, which I have done, there might be some impact. Granted, it would be a small impact, but it might gain his limited attention. In the meantime the US should boycott all Venezuelan oil. The only way to get to people with super heated egos, like Chavez, is through their pocketbooks. But, I suspect Mr. Chavez won’t be around long enough to spend a great deal of the fortune he is, no doubt, setting aside, in off-shore accounts, somewhere.

James Monroe, one of the most intelligent Presidents this country ever had, wrote the Monroe Doctrine to dissuade, primarily, Russia from seeking to colonize the South American Continent. The other European countries were put on notice, too. The alternative was that the US would defend South America simply because it was within our “sphere of influence”.

That was then, this is now.

The US has gone out of its way to create a safe atmosphere for democracy to be born and thrive in the countries of South America. They have told us, time and again, how much they despise democracy and how much they want to live as third world countries wallowing in the filth of serial revolutions, and the death and destruction that come as a result. They have chosen Socialism. They have made known their desire to “all suffer equally”.

So here is what I propose. Let them!

No more South American adventures for the US Military. No more US dollars to bail their sorry behinds out when they sink into dire poverty. No more lending of American Special Forces to track down drug dealers, who are, in effect, running a number of the northern South American countries.

I’m proposing that the US take a “hands off” policy toward South America. Let them sink or swim. Sooner or later a country will glide to the surface as the one country, on that continent, all others should attempt to pattern themselves after. Soon after, that country will see that it’s own security is at risk if the wild and wooly socialist states around it are not brought to heel and it will begin a program of conquest in South America. THAT is the country we should support. Give them whatever it takes to defeat the gangsters running their neighbor countries.

My money is on Chile becoming the nation, which will rise to the top. Chile is the nation we should be doing business with. Forget the others, as they are lost causes.

Call it a policy of “Tough Love” if you will. The US can no longer keep pouring money and resources into that rat hole.

It is time to give South America the “middle finger salute” and head for the exit!

One more thing, in closing: If Panama wishes to enlarge the Panama Canal; let them do it with THEIR money. Not one dollar of US funds should go towards enlarging the Panama Canal. When Jimmy Carter gave the Canal to Panama, the US was done with it. US taxpayers should not be expected to continue to keep it up. By the way, “giving the Canal BACK to Panama” was an outright lie. Panama never owned the Canal until we gave it to them. We TOOK the Canal from Columbia, not from Panama. Columbia was the rightful “previous owner “ of the Canal, not Panama. Just wanted to set the record straight on that.

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