Big Win for the Good Guys!

In an audacious rescue operation worthy of a Hollywood script, the Colombian military rescued three US Defense Contractors and twelve other hostages from the grips of the Marxist FARC. The three Americans, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes, were captured in 2003 while working for the Northrop Grumman Corporation after their surveillance plane went down on an antinarcotics mission.

To achieve the rescue, the Colombian military special operations forces poses as members of a Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) sympathetic to the Marxists, and conned the Marxists into giving the hostages over for a helicopter trip for additional humiliation.

What was telling about the whole thing is how easily Marxists guerillas believe that an NGO is sympathetic to them, and working with them. That is because nearly all NGOs are chuck full of Marxists, Communists, Socialists, and other America-haters. NGOs are loved by the despots at the UN, so much so, there is a special UN-NGO liaison office so NGOs can act as influencers at the UN. Of course, the United States funds the lion’s share of that UN office’s work.

But I digress. This duping of the Marxists freeing American citizens held for nearly five years is a huge win for the forces of freedom. The Marxist FARC has been taking it on the chin all year from Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, a true friend of the United States in Latin America.

There still remain hundreds of hostages held by the Marxists in Colombia. I pray that all of them will be safely released or rescued.