U.S. Foreign Policy Defends Corporations
Re “U.S. Plan Aims to Stem Pipeline’s Flow of Trouble,” Feb. 6: The handwriting (or rather, the obscene graffiti) is on the wall. Our White House is escalating the war in Colombia, proposing $98 million to help Bogota combat “rebel” attacks against Occidental Petroleum’s “oil shipments to the United States.”
Does this progression of events sound familiar: foreign aid dollars; weapons; military advisors in escalating numbers; defending infrastructure from insurgents?
Soon the White House will be calling the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia “terrorists,” if it has not already. This must cease immediately! This proposal must be refused by our cowed and bamboozled Congress.
President Bush’s foreign policy is spinning out of control, unchecked, thanks to the deception of this so-called “war on terrorism.” The president should not be allowed to use the attack on the World Trade Center as a pretext to escalate the war in Colombia.
David Schwankle
Riverside
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