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Just when you think that the US cant mis-understand the drug war anymore along comes a story like this;
US drugs tsar John Walters has admitted that Washington's anti-narcotics policy in Latin America has so far failed.
Mr Walters said in Mexico that billions of dollars of investment over many years have failed to dent the flow of Latin American cocaine onto US streets.
"We have not yet seen in all these efforts what we're hoping for on the supply side, which is a reduction in availability," he said in Mexico City.
But he predicted positive results would be seen within a year.
Mr Walters was speaking just after he had visited Colombia.
His comments can be seen as an admission that the so-called Plan Colombia has been a failure.
This initiative to wipe out drug smuggling gangs and eradicate coca crops has seen the Colombian government become the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world.
While praising Mexico's efforts to combat the drugs trade, Mr Walters also said that there'd been no notable disruption in the supply of drugs to the US.
Anti-narcotics raids had been successful in removing a number of important cartel leaders but had not led to any shortage.
However, Mr Walters said he hoped that there would be a decline in the amount of cocaine available in the United States over the next 12 months.
But, unfortunately its not only the US thats monumentally mis-guided, the UK government has set the date of 2013 for total irradication of opium from Afghanistan.
US drugs tsar John Walters has admitted that Washington's anti-narcotics policy in Latin America has so far failed.
Mr Walters said in Mexico that billions of dollars of investment over many years have failed to dent the flow of Latin American cocaine onto US streets.
"We have not yet seen in all these efforts what we're hoping for on the supply side, which is a reduction in availability," he said in Mexico City.
But he predicted positive results would be seen within a year.
Mr Walters was speaking just after he had visited Colombia.
His comments can be seen as an admission that the so-called Plan Colombia has been a failure.
This initiative to wipe out drug smuggling gangs and eradicate coca crops has seen the Colombian government become the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world.
While praising Mexico's efforts to combat the drugs trade, Mr Walters also said that there'd been no notable disruption in the supply of drugs to the US.
Anti-narcotics raids had been successful in removing a number of important cartel leaders but had not led to any shortage.
However, Mr Walters said he hoped that there would be a decline in the amount of cocaine available in the United States over the next 12 months.
But, unfortunately its not only the US thats monumentally mis-guided, the UK government has set the date of 2013 for total irradication of opium from Afghanistan.
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thats fucking clever stuff. how to milk the taxes and fund the military/industrial complex.
clever bastards aye?