ECUADOR: MILITARY RESPONSE IF COLOMBIA ATTACKS AGAIN,

CORREA WARNS IF COLOMBIA ATTACKS AGAIN,
ECUADOR RESPONSE WILL BE MILITARY

QUITO (Colombia Reports) - Ecuador President Rafael Correa said on Sunday that if Colombia carries out another cross-border attack like the one on a FARC camp in 2008, Ecuador's response will be military. When asked on local television, the President said he will not "allow an insult to the homeland as happened on March 1 2008 in Angostura", referring to an incident in which Colombia bombed a FARC camp just over the Ecuadorean border, klling 26 people including the rebel's number two, Raul Reyes. According to Correa, a military response is the only possible way for Ecuador to respond. "Colombia was totally condemned [by the Organization of American States], but they continue to have this attitude," Correa said. "If they attack us again, of course the response will be military," stressing a repercussion would consist of "smart bombs" fired on Colombian territory.

Ecuador said his government would also not allow the incursion of any of Colombia's illegal armed groups to enter the country and distanced himself from the practices of the FARC. Colombian and Ecuadorean ties have been strained after the Colombian bombing of a FARC camp in Ecuador. The release of a video in which a FARC commander confirms Colombian allegations that the guerrillas financially supported the 2006 campaign of Correa has worsened the relations even further.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

The kings and the princes released by Lord Krishna after the death of Jarasandha were rulers of different parts of the world. All the princes who saw Lord Krishna forgot all their past tribulations. With folded hands and with great devotion, they began to offer prayers to Lord Krishna, as follows:

"O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we must admit that, before this, we were puffed up with our material opulences. Because we were all envious of each other and wanted to conquer one another, we all engaged in fighting for supremacy, even at the cost of sacrificing the lives of many citizens."

This is the disease of political power. As soon as a king or a nation becomes rich in material opulences, he wants to dominate other nations by military aggression. Similarly, mercantile men want to monopolize a certain type of business and control other mercantile groups. Degraded by false prestige and infatuated by material opulences, human society, instead of striving for Krishna consciousness, creates havoc and disrupts peaceful living. Thus men naturally forget the real purpose of life: to attain the favor of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"Krishna Book , Chapter 72 - Lord Krishna Returns to the City of Hastinapura"