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U.S. escalates "Plan Colombia"

Posted in the database on Friday, March 24th, 2006 @ 17:41:04 MST (1634 views)
by Eli Stephens    left i on the news  

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The U.S. has been helping Colombia wage war against FARC for many years with its "Plan Colombia." But now a dangerous escalation is occuring. Amusingly, just yesterday in the comments someone was criticizing those who get their "news" from Jon Stewart's Daily Show. Well, perhaps, but this particular story didn't make it into the paper I read (the San Jose Mercury News) or any of the TV news shows I watch; if it hadn't been featured on the Daily Show last night, I wouldn't have known about it. The U.S. has indicted 50 leaders of FARC for drug trafficking involving smuggling $25 billion (!) worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries. As a minor matter, I haven't seen the indictments or the evidence, but I find it hard to believe they actually had enough evidence against, say, #43 to properly indict him. But minor issues like legality don't stop the United States.

Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson "stressed that the U.S. will not take unilateral military action." Yes, just like U.S. troops are in Iraq at the "invitation" of the Iraqi "government." This indictment is a very dangerous escalation of U.S. involvement in this war. And, perhaps coincidentally or perhaps not, we also find this item in today's "celebrity gossip" (!) section of the paper:

Diplomat-in-training Bruce Willis has defused a potential war with Colombia. The "Armageddon" star recently argued that since Colombia's cocaine trafficking is as evil as terrorism, we should invade the country. A surprisingly irked Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez called Willis "arrogant" and "ignorant."

"Surprisingly irked"?



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