Look I'm an immigrant from Colombia. I saw how the degenerates started the drug trade. Then the right started the war on drugs. The battlefield and the casualties were not our American homeland. Is there a better way? It's okay when the ravages of our little ethical disputes are sorted out in some sterile petri dish. But, cruise ships won't stop at my birthplace of Cartagena anymore, too dangerous. So let's light up another one.
Sorry to hear about your former homeland. I am not an interventionist, nor an isolationist. Those little ethical disputes affect all of us - my neighbors (our neigborhood is 90% military) are the ones being deployed and TDY to those "petri dishes". Some were stationed in Germany, and our departure is not "the right to dictate what should be the optimal ethnic mix of their societies". On one hand it seems you complain about us being there, and then about the results of us leaving.
I'm barranquillero... how long you've been here???
And, true to what has happened in the last 30 years, the drug trade has fueled the conflict in Colombia, both in the Communist left (FARC and ELN) and the right (AUC).
Sometimes I think the only way to end the war in Colombia would be to legalize cocaine and other stuff, but that's just my crazy self talking.