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Wednesday 05
January 2011 |
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If Costa
Rica
Expects
US
Marines
To March
In And
Save The
Day, It
Is A
Dream
By John Holtz*
The
headlines
read,
“Chinchilla
Asks
Obama
and
Clinton
for
Support
with
Nicaragua
Conflict”.
Noticias
Reloj
broke
the
story
which
might be
more
fiction
than
fact and
Inside
Costa
Rica ran
with it.
I do not
doubt at
one time
or
another,
and
possibly
even in
December
that
Presidenta
Chinchilla
spoke
with
President
Obama
and
Secretary
of
State,
Hillary
Clinton
asking
for more
support
from the
United
States
as it
relates
to the
incursion
of
Nicaraguan
troops
on the
Isla
Calero.
However,
both the
source
and
content
of those
conversations
are
sketchy,
at best.
Many
Costa
Ricans
have
asked
why the
is US
silent
and the
absent
of
outrage.
The same
could be
said for
Costa
Ricans
who
freely
protest
just
about
everything
else and
have
been
mute on
the
occupation.
Doña
Laura,
according
to
Noticias
Reloj,
did not
confirm
the
conversations
nor
reveal
the
content
of the
alleged
conversations.
In
short,
we do
not know
if the
calls
were
made and
what was
said.
The
confirmation,
according
to
Noticias
Reloj,
was “a
source
close to
the
presidenta
(Chinchilla),
no name
or
position.
Hell, my
office
is 10
minutes
from her
home so
does
that
make us
a
credible
source
“…close
to the
president?”
If Costa
Rica
expects
US
Marines
to march
in and
save the
day, it
is a
dream,
maybe
even a
nightmare.
This
country,
Costa
Rica has
opted to
take the
diplomatic
road and
might
very
well be
having
second
thoughts
since it
did the
same as
to
ownership
of the
Rio San
Juan and
lost big
time in
the
World
Court of
Justice
or more
popularly
called
The
Hague.
From the
US side,
making
war on
Nicaragua
makes
little
long
term
political
sense.
Overt
military
assistance
would
play
directly
into the
hands of
ALBA,
made up
of such
anti-USA
countries
as
Venezuela,
Ecuador
and
Bolivia
not to
mention
Iran who
can and
would
inflict
more
political
damage
on an
already
hurting
USA.
If the
US would
send in
the
Marines,
it would
take
another
200
years to
overcome
the
imperialist
theme
that is
oh so
prevalent
and easy
to
exploit.
In
short,
where is
the
upside?
The US
has
supported
the
Costa
Rican
argument
at the
OAS,
will at
The
Hague
and
again at
the
United
Nations
Security
Council,
if
required.
It is
the UN
and its
blue
helmets
that
Costa
Rica
wants to
work
with and
not the
US
Marines.
The blue
helmets
and
international
peace
keepers
of which
the US
is a
part of,
but not
on its
own.
Nowhere
in any
of the
published
articles
is it
said
what
Costa
Rica
wants
from the
US?
According
to
Noticias
Reloj,
The
Obama
administration
did not
offer
strong
support.
My
question
is
support
for
what?
“Yes”,
the
authors
used a
well
publicized
piece in
the
Washington
Post
that
Obama is
soft on
Nicaragua.
An easy
play by
writers
with an
agenda
and
possibly
accurate.
Costa
Rica,
what do
you want
the US
to do? I
keep
asking
myself
that
question
over and
over and
the only
realistic
conclusion
is send
in the
troops
to shed
foreign
blood on
foreign
soil.
On a
more
personal
level,
Oscar
Arias
has
chastised
the
United
States
whenever
possible
for
being a
mindless,
militaristic
country.
Costa
Rica has
proudly,
if not
arrogantly,
flaunted
its no
army
banner
and
being a
peace
loving
nation.
The two
do make
for a
good mix
and the
occupation
of Isla
Calero
certainly
does not
represent
a
compelling
reason
for war.
*John
Holtz is
the
Executive
Director
of the
Center
for the
Studies
of
Modern
Management
www.modernmanagement.org
and can
be
reached
at:
[email protected].
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