Military in Colombia for drug war?
Gary Sudborough
Bellflower, Ca.
From the crushing of the Paris commune in 1871 to the invasion of Russia by the armies of every capitalist nation after the Bolshevik revolution to the U.S. war against socialism in Indochina to the U.S. interventions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, the prime objective always has been the prevention of socialism succeeding anywhere.
Now, the U.S. media want me to ignore 130 years of this history and believe that the military aid and U.S. advisors in Colombia have something to do with stopping drugs. Give me a break.
The American people may have been conditioned by repetition and sound bytes to believe this baloney, but it is a much more destructive and vicious lie than the one told by President Clinton about his sex life. It is similar to the lie told by the media that the bombing of Yugoslavia was due to great compassion by the U.S. government for the Albanians in Kosovo. It was really to destroy the last socialist state in Europe that was refusing to yield to the privatization and deregulation demands of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
The U.S. government has actually collaborated with drug traffickers such as the Hmong people in Indochina, the Afghan "freedom fighters" and the Contras in Central America to defeat socialist revolutions. This makes their claim of fighting a drug war even more ridiculous.
Former DEA agent Michael Levine wrote a book called, "The Big White Lie," in which he documents how the CIA brought a government to power in Bolivia in 1980 that he refers to as the "General Motors of cocaine." Incidentally, this was the coup in which Klaus Barbie and other European fascists participated.
Horrible things are being done by the paramilitary armies in Colombia that are armed and trained by the United States. Pacifica radio's program, "Democracy Now," reported that a village of men, women and children were massacred by paramilitaries using chain saws to slowily dismember people and kill them.
This is the doctrine of low-intensity warfare. The most despicable and horrifying thing imaginable is done so that U.S. forces won't need to be deployed. After Vietnam the American people will no longer tolerate significant American casualties. Also, a frightened, intimidated population is ideal as a labor force for sweatshops because they won't unionize. Call your representatives in Congress and end this evil in Colombia.
Gary Sudborough
Bellflower, Ca.
March 27, 2001
All Viewpoint Stories for Wednesday, March 28, 2001
