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To: Snowshoe who wrote (31244)	3/23/2008 1:27:49 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218160

no need for world policeman: best way the U.S. can help the council is ``watch from the outside and keep its distance. Brazil Asks U.S. Distance on Council, Rejects F-35, Folha Says By Jeb Blount March 22 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim asked the U.S. to keep its distance from a South American Defense Council being set up by Brazil and its neighbors, the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported, citing the minister. Jobim, in meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, said the best way the U.S. can help the council is ``watch from the outside and keep its distance,'' Folha said. The council was proposed after the Colombian Army entered Ecuador March 1 to kill members of Colombia's FARC guerrilla group hiding in the country. The incursion led Venezuela and Ecuador to send troops to their borders with Colombia and led to concern that the countries might go to war. Jobim also told the U.S. that Brazil won't buy Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 fighters to re-equip its Air Force, Folha said. Jobim favors cheaper French fighter aircraft, Lockheed's F-18 and the purchase of aircraft built by Sao Jose de Campos, Brazil- based Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA, the world's fourth- largest aircraft maker. To contact the reporter on this story: Jeb Blount in Rio de Janeiro at jblount@bloomberg.net