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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Oh my. In the headlines this weekend, I read about 3 American G contractors being held hostage in Columbia.
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By cocaine dealers, or by right-wing/left-wing political groups? There's an awful lot of killing and hostage taking in Colombia.
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In the headlines every weekend, I read about large numbers of inner city homicides. A simple majority of urban homicides are tied to the narcotics trade, or at least in some cities a simple majority of urban homicides are tied to the narcotics trade.
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Cite, please. For your assertion about the cause of these homicides, and for the apparent assertion that these are tied to terrorism against the US.
I, for one, was unaware of the Crip-Al Qaeda link (of course, I'm still struggling to understand the Abu Ghraib-Al Qaeda link, so maybe it's just me).
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I'll take your prospective oil-terrorism, and raise you by perhaps 10K actual murders per year in America. Or are those murders okay because the dead people are usually criminals?
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No, they aren't. But, like you, I don't shed too many tears over dead drug dealers (or do you feel that way only when the state kills them?)
Of course, drugs are illegal in the US. The US spends billions each year on drug prevention and enforcement of drug laws. So, one can hardly say that, as a matter of policy, the US has been lax in trying to prevent the drug trade that, in your view, supports terrorism.
Policy-level efforts to cut the dependency on Saudi oil, however, are somewhat.... well, non-existent.
