Joe Biden coddles another terrorist group — and Florida’s Democrats are screaming

American Thinker:

By Monica Showalter

As if dealing with the Taliban as a “partner” and taking the Houthis off the terrorist watch list weren’t enough, Joe Biden has decided to succor another terrorist group: FARC.

Most people don’t remember them, but these were the vile Marxist narco-terrorists who terrorized Colombia for 60 years and then got off scot-free based on a “peace deal” from a lousy Colombian president whose hankering for a Nobel prize was so strong that he literally ignored a popular referendum rejecting such a deal.  They had good reason: in FARC’s war on that country, 200,000 people were killed, and two million were displaced as refugees in their own country.  Want to know where shantytowns come from?  Yes, the displaced.  Millions more fled the country, leaving it a bleak, impoverished landscape.

FARC’s depravities against individuals were unspeakable, and every Colombian was touched by them.  I recall the plaintive signs in Bogota windows and the scrawlings on church walls from locals begging FARC to return their missing and kidnapped loved ones.  To describe just one incident Americans may remember vaguely, FARC’s inhuman monsters (and if you read this book, they most certainly were monsters) held three innocent Americans hostage for five and a half years in chains in the disease-filled Colombian jungle, enduring privation and torture until they were spectacularly rescued in 2007.  They shot two others dead in cold blood, including a fourth American.  FARC, which pioneered car bombs, child soldiers, child rape, child kidnapping, child torture, a war on the family, burning churches with terrified people in them, school attacks, disco attacks, ransom kidnapping, dancing around with their hero Fidel Castro, and other depravities was pretty much a combination of al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Mexican cartels, Castro’s guerrillas, and Bill Ayers.  Naturally, such a horrible group was caught taking millions from Hugo Chávez, who adored what they were doing.  But for the rest of us, and most certainly any Colombian, FARC is one of the most depraved groups on the planet. more