While the FARC should not be counted out especially as long as they enjoy cross-border support from the likes of Chavez every effort should be made to capitalize on this signal defeat further to dismantle one of the most cancerous blights in the region.
Certainly, as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has repeatedly pointed out, we could not have counted on our allies to participate in the Grand Coalition if their capitals had been in the cross-hairs.