Sure they're ready, willing and able to highlight the misdeeds of the FARC against Alvaro Uribe Velez' unstable government in Bogota without recognizing that the FARC has controlled a sizeable chunk of Colombian territory for many years and, without a doubt, the Colombians that live their lives there, do so more freely than under the oppression of drug cartels equalling Uribe's mismanaged dalliance with Washington D.C.
Who benefits from the United States' alliance with Colombia? Well, of course, the cocaine cartels all the way through to the pushers on the streets of Anytown USA! Then there's the big arms manufacturers in the United States never mind the various tentacles of the private security complex with cash filtering all the way down (or up!) to under the tables of the US House of Representatives and Senate ... and more!
Is there any wonder that these greedy individuals are foaming at the mouth for more as they see the proliferation of US military bases in Colombia and more profits to come? Do they really care if the purpose of the US military bases is to control the flow of cocaine? What, indeed, have they achieved with the $ billions they've poured into Colombia in recent years? Factually: ZILCH ... unless you reckon in the multi-$ million commission pay-offs to shadowy figures in Colombia and (all the moreso) in the United States itself to allow officialdom to continue to screw hard-working United States taxpayers out of millions upon millions of deflating dollars more...
While the boys in the Colombian army, navy and air force will enjoy playing with their new toys, do you really imagine for a moment that the 'machos' won't hesitate a millisecond to use those self-same weapons and munitions to instigate a proxy war for the Pentagon while the top-brass rubs its hands in glee at the prospect of even more hardware sales and even more security-mercenary commissions to be creamed off contracts under the table to shadowy "intermediaries"?
Come on, get real, it's what makes Washington, D.C. tick!
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