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Posted by FoM on July 23, 2001 at 16:56:45 PT By David Adams and Paul De La Garza Source: St. Petersburg Times 
In the annual debate over foreign policy spending in Congress, nothing seems to ignite greater discord than the drug war in Colombia. When the House opened debate on the $15.2-billion budget for foreign operations last week, there was solid bipartisan support for most of the Bush administration's programs. That ranged from increased support for international HIV-AIDS funding to continued major backing for Israel, Egypt and other traditional overseas allies. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #3 posted by Doug on July 24, 2001 at 09:35:40 PT:
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| In the Hindu religion, a juggernaut is a wagon pulled by elephants for the worship of Krishna; followers throw themselves under the wheels and are crushed to death; nothing can stop it. Plan Columbia, and the whole War on Drugs, is a juggernaut. Once it has picked up momentum nothing can stop it. The Vietnam war was the same way: many government officials realized early on that it was futile, but they didn't want to be the ones that delivered the bad news, that were "chicken". So millions of people died needlessly. And Plan Columbia will keep going on crushing people until it is toppled by its own weight, but by then at least one country will have been destroyed. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on July 24, 2001 at 05:17:18 PT:
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| "That may shed some useful light on what experts agree is one of the trickiest foreign policy issues facing the United States. "It's a very complicated puzzle," said Shifter. "The Middle East and the Balkans are pretty complicated but at least there's an awareness of where we stand. On Colombia people just back away and aren't prepared to face it and wrestle with it." Mr. Shifter is engaging in dissembling. Colombia is no less as easily understood as the Balkan situation is: the US military protecting the enormous sums of money that US and other Western corporations have expended in attempting to stabilize (translation: make agreements with local satraps in order to exploit local resources for enormous profit) these regions. Drugs are a convenient excuse to whip up public sentiment ("Those G*****n Marxist dope dealers are after our children!!!") for purely corporate gain. But the Guv'mint can't say that, now can it? It was never that the situation in Colombia is so difficult to understand that the American people are too benighted, ignorant and just plain stoopid to understand. It is that to explain what's happening there would be to open yourself to questions concerning the efficacy of the entire drug interdiction efforts presently underway. And why they are necessary. That's what pols are afraid of. One strategically asked question, at the right time and place, would be as devastating to them as a smart bomb dropped down an elevator shaft, blowing up in the middle of a building. This is part of the reason why antis are wet-their-pants scared at the prospect of debating us. One well-aimed question can destroy them. And they know it. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by The GCW on July 23, 2001 at 18:29:14 PT |
| quote "...aren't prepared to face it and wrestle with it." This is Florida isn't it? Let that guy that wrestled the shark have at those prohibitionist politicians. Haaa. aa [ Post Comment ] |
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