April 4, 2005
Whew, we're making progress
Posted by tomo at 11:13 AM in drugs . | 2 Comments
On Tuesday, five unidentified US soldiers working in Colombia as part of a US anti-narcotics force were arrested as they allegedly attempted to ship 16 kilograms of cocaine into the United States....
The arrests come as analysts claim the US-backed "war" on Colombia's huge cocaine industry has failed over the last year to make inroads into destroying coca crops.
The amount of land planted with coca, which is used to make cocaine, stayed stable in Colombia in 2004 despite massive aerial crop spraying in the fourth year of a program which has absorbed over $US3 billion in US aid.
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The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy announced the data on Good Friday and it went almost unnoticed.
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This doesn't suprise me considering how little we pay our troops. Drug war debate aside, is this really the best use of US troops at the moment? Is this even a good use of US troops at any point in time? It doesn't seem to fit the job description of defending our nation to me. Posted by: ryan at April 4, 2005 12:11 PM |
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Wow. Thanks for posting this as well. I like the quotes around war and the oblique mention of Marxist rebels. Posted by: brette at April 4, 2005 12:52 PM |