Colombia’s FARC name a new leader and promise to fight on

Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 23:03 UTC

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Colombia's FARC guerrillas named Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, as the group's new leader after its previous boss was killed this month, according to a rebel statement published on a website. Read full article

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In the Battle of Stalingrad,
the first Russian infantryman carried the rifle,
when he fell, the next one picked it up until he fell,
then the next one picked it up . . . . . .
. . . . .

FARC will have someone to step up when the leader falls, but this may not be always so.
Unlike Stalingrad, where the selfless resistance bought time for new armies and weapons to be forged and deployed, FARC is faltering in its message and its following.

There will come a time when the saddened remnants simply call it a day and simply fade back into the anonymity of those war-wearied populations.

“ . . . This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang
but with a whimper.”
-- T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Man”
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