Thank the army, not the jungle, for the rescue of the four Colombian children
Posted on AllSides June 11th, 2023
From The Right
Following the news of a dramatic rescue of four children lost in the Amazon jungle, Colombia's far-left president, Gustavo Petro, praised the children who survived in that fearsome wilderness for 40 days as "children of the jungle." That's like calling children who survived a nuclear meltdown "children of the reactor" or kids who survived under earthquake rubble "children of the temblor." Do anyone call champion surfer Bethany Hamilton, who was injured in a shark attack as a young girl a "child of the shark"? They're disaster survivors, and yes, it...