[news] U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s three-year U.S.-backed military offensive has failed to seriously diminish the FARC’s (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) military capacity. Given that Washington has already made Colombia the third-largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the world—providing intelligence, weapons and training—the only remaining escalation available to the Bush administration is to deploy U.S. combat troops to the South American nation under the guise of the war on drugs.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4462