“[The treaty] is one more step in the cooperation that has been in place for more than 50 years between the United States and Colombia,” said Gabriel Silva, Colombian Minister of Defense.
Obama, who wanted to make the war in Afghanistan the spearhead of his foreign policy, must now weigh whether the sending in of additional forces could indeed turn the tide.
[The Democrats] have begun to accuse the Grand Old Party of putting party interests before national ones: anti-Obamaism to the point of anti-Americanism.