Comments on: From Argentina’s Clarin newspaper: Resurrected U.S. Fourth Fleet Creates Suspicion Across South America

By: outside45

outside45 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:07:18 +0000

I think its funny how they refer to Joseph Kernan as “Supreme Commander”. I also think its funny how they refer to Kernan a Navy Rear Admiral as a marine.
They claim that “Southern Command has suddenly become just as important as CENTCOM”, yet there are TWO wars being waged in CENTCOM. This article is as much propaganda as some of the major newspapers in States.

By: Mike_P

Mike_P — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:55:52 +0000

I don't think this is a big deal. Until 2000 the Navy operated the “South Atlantic Force” out of Puerto Rico. It had few permanently committed assets, but ships from Second Fleet would rotate in and out. For years they sponsored the 6-7 month-long “UNITAS” series of exercises, which consisted of naval maneuvers with most coastal SA navies (usually 13 or so, including Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, etc.) as well as port visits in each of those nations. The SA news media was very much aware of it, covered the exercises widely, and for the most part positively. Most of the region's current senior naval officers surely participated in them, and gained professionally from them.

We've ignored and been ignorant of South America and its importance for far too long. A formal U.S. Fourth Fleet sounds like a good idea to me.

By: TPAZ

TPAZ — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:03:35 +0000

Of course not silly. Just as we needed a brown face (Colin Powell) to lead a Christian army into the Muslim world to fight, we need a brown face (Obama) to lead the 4th Fleet in the upcoming South American/North American Wars.

The pretext for these oil wars will be the narco-trade getting out of control and illegal immigration.

By: Rambie

Rambie — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:55:16 +0000

We going to blockade Cuba again?