[Blue Highway]

I wish Reagan was alive to read your post. His War on Drugs would have been nullified by what you say, calling Columbia an ally when most of the illegal drugs are still smuggled from that country. What am I missing? Can you seriously call a country like that an ALLY?

[Polybius]

I wish Reagan was alive to read your post. His War on Drugs would have been nullified by what you say, calling Columbia an ally when most of the illegal drugs are still smuggled from that country. What am I missing?

Ummmm .... Maybe you are missing the fact that our ally is the current Colombian Government and that the drug traffickers, many of them being Communist guerrillas are the enemy?

Ummmm .... Maybe you are missing the fact that, when Pablo Escobar was killed by a combined U.S. Government-Colombian Government operation, the "enemy" was Pablo Escobar and not our ally in the war against him, the Colombian Government?

Ummmm .... Maybe you are missing the fact that, in the year that the City of New York was racked with crime and Rudy Giulliani bacome Mayor, the enemies were the crimminals in New York and not the City of New York or Mayor Giulliani?

Can you seriously call a country like that an ALLY?

Not if you lack the ability to use basic logic.

Here is a basic logic lesson for you:

In the photograph below, the "allies" are the Columbian Government troops, with still smoking guns, that staged a successfull raid against the drug lord Pablo Escobar in close cooperation with U.S. military personnel that were providing electronic surveillance support in Colombia.

In the photograph below, the "enemy" is the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. He is the fat, dead guy with all the bullet holes in him.

One more thing:

"....calling Columbia an ally ..."

Colombia, with an "o", is a country in South America.

Columbia, with a "u", is an allegorical name for the United States of America.