Posted By: monica
Date: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 02:08:37 PST
My very simple question is: Who does Mr. Stone think he is, to go to Colombia and tell the 44 million Colombians that he has "no illusions about the FARC, but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living," "And here, if you fight, you fight to win." Mr. Stone said this in an interview with The Associated Press at his hotel bar.
I do not think that this is a war of peasants, nor that they are poor people trying to fight for a decent living. The rebels have been killing thousands of Colombians for decades, without looking them or their families in the face. Where is their good cause? If these rebels are trying to do something good for our country, they should start by not killing their own country men, the real peasants who have to withstand the pain of seeing their land destroyed by the war, or who have to abandon it because they can no longer stay there safely.
Mr. Stone has never lived there, his family members were not kidnapped, nor killed by the rebels. Why does he think he can call them 'peasants fighting for a decent living'? it is such an insult to every single Colombian citizen who goes to work every day to make an HONEST living. The millions of men, women and children who chose not to go into the ways of the guns. Someone please ask Mr. Stone to stop speaking about the rebels in such an endearing way, as if we should thank them for what they do. Mr. Stone, please stop insulting the majority of Colombians.