When Barry Seal was murdered in a halfway house, they found his address book in his trunk. It contained the personal number of George Bush. It was a dirty business fighting the communists in our hemisphere. We had to support bad people, just as we were pals with Joe Stalin in WW II. Drug smuggling was an unfortunate part of the dirty business. Bush was head of the CIA. He either knew what people were doing or deliberately closed his eyes to what was going on so he would have plausible deniability. In either case, Bill Clinton, as the corrupt governor of Arkansas, allowed billions of dollars of cocaine to come into Mena. He got his payoff - the presidency.
Since you brought up the Communists, is anyone aware that the FIRST REGISTERED COMMUNIST UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED IN, you got it...MENA ARKANSAS!!!!Throw that into this big bubbling cauldron.