War on and on It seems the War on Drugs has tak…
War on and on
It seems the War on Drugs has taken a backseat to the new crusade. But it has an identical dynamic to the War on Terrorism as uncovered by award-winning US journalist Gary Webb. See his Dark Alliance site for all the details:
�For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army [that is, the Nicaraguan Contra terrorists - steve] run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the crack capital of the world.�
And who was chief of the CIA during this time? A certain George Bush Snr.
We�re told the problem, whether it be Iraq or drug abuse, must be tackled, and our liberties curtailed to do this; and who are we to argue? But, of course, the very people demanding this are the propagators of these evils. It�s difficult even for some politically aware people to get their head around the implications. See Salman Rushdie�s otherwise anti-hawk article for the Washington Post:
�the logical implication of the Western-liberal opposition to America’s Afghan war is that it would be better if the Taliban were still in power. And it can be ugly; the post-Sept. 11 crowing of the serves-you-right brigade was certainly that.�
Salman, the logical outcome is, surely, that supporting the Afghan �war� (�Unfilmed Massacre� would be more accurate) implies one thinks that the 9/11 attacks were a good thing. Otherwise the Taliban would still be in power! That�s absurd of course; it�s far more complex than that. Indeed, it�s more complex, because, as Cockburn and St Clair detail, the CIA was also instrumental in the creating �the world’s most robust heroin market and helped to finance the rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.� Yes, very ugly indeed.
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