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Newshawk: Wisconsin-NORML
Pubdate: Wed, 12 Jul 2000
Source: Green Bay News-Chronicle (WI)
Copyright: 2000 Green Bay News-Chronicle
Contact:
Address: P.O. Box 2467, Green Bay WI 54306
Fax: 920-432-8581
Website: http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/
Author: David Nyhan, Boston Globe Columnist
Note: Originally appeared in the Boston Globe 7 July 2000 as "Vietnam All
Over Again - The Colombia Drug War", Original MAPnews URL:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n939/a10.html
ADDICTED TO AN UNWINNABLE WAR
Small, Poor, Remote Country
History of political instability. Rich people still screwing over poor
people as they've done from the Year One. Decades-old guerrilla war
that began with machetes and shotguns now escalating to big-time
weapons. US government sends money. Political advisers. Military
advisers. More money. Now it's two kinds of military helicopters. Haven't we seen this movie before? The Americanization of Colombia's
civil-drug war looks and smells like Vietnam all over again. Twenty-five years after Saigon fell like a rotting plum from the grasp
of Uncle Sam and the corrupt and incompetent South Vietnamese regime,
we're trying the same dumb thing all over again.
Oh, did I mention the herbicide? Just as we blanketed Southeast Asia's
jungles and peasantry with Agent Orange, we're getting ready to
contaminate the hillside drug crops of Colombia with herbicide.
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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