Mad Idea of the Day

Today's nominee for a session or two with Sir Roderick Glossop is Foreign Policy's Sam Dupont. Relating the stirring tale of a Colombian policeman's escape from the FARC (and his statement that three American hostages are still alive, as is 2002 Presidential nominee Ingrid Betancourt), he floats this idea:

Curiously, nothing much has been made of this news in the U.S. media, and nobody is proposing to do anything about it. While an intense search for three U.S. GIs held hostage south of Baghdad stretches into its seventh day, the three Northrop Grumman contractors, one of whom is reportedly suffering from hepatitis, continue to languish in their jungle prison. The parallel only highlights the inexcusability of letting U.S. citizens—government contractors, no less—waste away in the hands of a narcoterrorist group. Send in the Marines? [Emphasis added, of course.]

I assume Mr duPont only prefers a small deployment to the Colombian jungle to a full-scale invasion. Nonetheless might one suggest, albeit with the appropriate degree of hesitation, that US involvement in Colombia contributes to a problem that is unlikely to be lessened by increasing the US military presence in Colombia. That's just a hunch however.