Plan Colombia misses coca target

They're doing a heck of a job, by god, and it has only cost the U.S. taxpayers over 6 billion.

It's time to decommission this disaster. Wrong then, wrong now, would be far more wrong if it continued.

Remember Clinton did have a Republican dominated Congress at the time they put Plan Colombia into place. Maybe it wasn't all his idea, after all. He should have never done it, just as he should have NEVER implemented NAFTA.

NAFTA. But, we always have to remember that dems and repubs alike, put US "interests" ahead of everything and everyone. I think that is one of my least favorite phrases "US Interests", we are so self centered. US-centric ideals are so indoctrinated in us, we have to force ourselves to look through the propaganda to see the rest of the world. Once the rose colored glasses come off, it is nearly impossible not to see the blatancy of our actions. Mine! If it isn't mine, I will manipulate you and use your desperation/hunger/thirst/need/suffering to take it. It all just makes me sick.

all that baloney crashes to the ground for anyone who dares to start looking for the truth about REAL interraction, intervention, destabilization, overthrowing of governments, assassinations, and continuous covert action against the best interests of people within their own countries, to bribe, coerce their leaders to put US interests first above the needs of the poor of their own country, to corrupt them to the point they throw open their countries to exploitation, rape, pillage just for personal enrichment and power.

After the disillusion sets in, it finally becomes possible to start learning there are some actual GOOD U.S. politicians who have been working toward the higher ideals from the first, if they don't get assassinated, that is!

Learning about the corruption makes the good ones stand out starkly. There aren't as many of them, clearly, but in the end, all the fascist, racist scum like Jesse Helms, Tom DeLay, and their ilk who have been controlling Latin America policy DO fade away, and are forgotten, thank god, when they are gone, while the images of the few truly GOOD ones we've got shine brightly, and THEIR aspirations WILL WIN, in the end. It's inevitable, in time, even though the criminals among us usually seem to get the upper, more powerful hand.

Hope it happens in our lifetimes.

I have a very hard time not being cynical on this issue. Yes, I agree that there are some good well-meaning politicians. I hope that President Obama remains one. However, unless changes are made that strips the power away from corporations and profit driven policies, not much will change in the way of exploitation of the poor.