President Bush never tires of spending our tax dollars losing not winning various wars. Now he wants to give Colombia another $600 million International Herald Tribune reports.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns calls it a strategy adjustment:
"In any counterterrorism or counter-narcotics campaign you sometimes have to adjust strategy to be effective as conditions change," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters in Bogota, announcing the White House was seeking to maintain current levels of support for its caretaker in the war on drugs through 2008. "We'll be open to any suggestions the Colombian government makes."
I think what he meant to say was that we refuse to adjust our strategy and weâre not open to suggestions. And what does he mean "as conditions change"? Nothing's changed since Plan Colombia began eight years ago . Thatâs the problem.
Meanwhile the police we trained with the last $600 million are getting killed systematically. Sound familiar?
Permission to Reprint: This content is licensed under a modified Creative Commons Attribution license. Content of a purely educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of DRCNet Foundation, unless otherwise noted.
Add new comment