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The Green Berets certainly seem to have turned Lara Logan's head at CBS. A couple of weeks ago she followed them on night training exercises in the Utah Desert. Now she joins up with the commandos in the jungles of Colombia. The war with the FARC guerrillas has not been covered on the nightly news for an entire year since the headline-grabbing commando raid that rescued Ingrid Betancourt and her fellow hostages. Logan's Exclusive is an effusive profile of those jungle commandos and the USArmy Green Berets who trained them.
Listen to Logan's lavish praise: "The economy is thriving. Order has been restored. Kidnappings are down dramatically." The commandos "have used the skills they have learned with devastating effects against their enemy in the jungle, breaking the back of a 45-year-old insurgency…They have cut the area FARC can operate from almost half the country ten years ago to just 5% today…Colombia's army enjoys soaring popularity among the people." Diplomats see Colombia as the poster country for nation building: "The more Afghanistan can look like Colombia the better," Logan's unidentified official US source told her.
Oh, by the way, "critics point out that the military has been implicated in the killing and disappearance of civilians."
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