If Only Afghanistan Were More Like Colombia…
Colombian narcs who haven't been killed yet are holding police training seminars in Afghanistan. From The International Herald Tribune:
Afghan narcs-in-training will learn what a joke this is when their Colombian instructors request asylum.
It is a measure of Afghanistan's virulent opium trade, which has helped revive the Taliban while corroding the credibility of the government, that U.S. officials now hope that Afghanistan's drug problem will someday be only as bad as that of Colombia.They're unearthing mass graves in Colombia. Cocaine is cheaper than ever. The president is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal. You can’t even grow bananas there without becoming a pawn in a paramilitary extortion scandal. Yet American drug warriors talk about Colombia like it's a shining beacon of justice and democracy.
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"I wanted the Colombians to come here to give the Afghans something to aspire to," [DEA Kabul Chief Vincent] Balbo said. "To instill the fact that they have been doing this for years, and it has worked."
Afghan narcs-in-training will learn what a joke this is when their Colombian instructors request asylum.
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