[hchutch]

Newt went overboard, but the underlying problems are pretty darn clear, if you want my opinion.

The smart moves would have been to have backed that earlier coup, NOT place the AUC on the same blacklist as al-Qaeda, and to stop taking the crap we take from Cuba that we have taken. However, when it comes to Latin America, there is a fifth column, and I think it has protection from at least one Senator (Dodd), possibly more.

It may also extend to the MidEast, but in that case, it's an appeasement mentality that may or may not have Congressional protection from some of the same folks who tried to get in the way of Reagan's anti-communist efforts in the 1980s or their ideological heirs.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

How exactly did Newt go overboard? I see nothing in this article to either re-affirm any respect I had for the State Department in their diplomatic competency or their ideological integrity with regards to freedom and representation. Its the State Department, in their desire to please all governments that has dirtied the American name overseas by always dealing and negotiating, no matter corruption. In my opinion; The State Department itself is a cancer, and I'm serious when I say it is inherently Unconstitutional.

Newt seems to have made alot of people uncomfortable that the media was going to rip the Admin apart, I think if people would stop personalizing the issues and focus on the details he gave about State's record, the nation would be better off for it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The comedien was obviously protesting Chaves, and getting his message out to as many important people as he could, while he could.

He'd be in demand if he wasn't at risk for an "accident."