The commie women of FARC

No one likes Colombian women more than me. Sophia Vergara, Shakira, Paula Garces to name few. Well, and my wife whose grandfather came with the Colombian Army to put down the Panamanian revolution and decided to stay. The Washington Post sent Nick Miroff to a press event sponsored by the Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Miroff says that he talked to Colombian federal troops and they told him that they feared the women of FARC more than the men;

“The women are the worst,” said one special forces officer, his name withheld because he works under cover. “If you get captured, you pray it’s by the male rebels.”

The female guerrillas are the most savage and brutal interrogators, he said. “They’re more ideological than the men. They’re merciless.”

Of course, Miroff thinks that applies to the US military’s integration of women into combat units;

They’re an interesting counterpoint to those who have argued against female U.S. soldiers serving in combat because of their supposed physical inferiority.

Tell that to the Colombian troops who have been on the receiving end of FARC attacks by makeup-wearing, grenade-slinging women strapped with automatic rifles.

The officers I spoke to explained that FARC has long incorporated women into its ranks. Having a mixed-gender army helped keep rebel soldiers on the battlefield longer, warding off potential homesickness.

Yeah, well, FARC has been in the jungles with their war against the Colombian government since 1966. US forces don’t need something to ward off homesicknesss and that’s probably one of the reasons that many Americans oppose the integration. I’m pretty sure that most women in uniform would object to that particular reason to integrate them into combat units.

Miroff should really read the book “Out of Captivity” written by three Americans, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes, who were captured and held by FARC for more than five years. They paint a very different story of the females of FARC – many of their stories reinforce the beliefs that women aren’t as suited to the lifestyle of long-term combat. Besides, FARC is still a communist organization in it’s finals days of existence. Any participation by any media organization in their press events is only prolonging the whole false revolution thing and it will only cost more Colombian lives. FARC sends the idealistic youth of Colombia to their deaths. FARC are terrorists, just like ISIS and al Qaeda, so quit trying to relive the Cold War days and romanticizing terrorists.

Category: Terror War