August 12th, 2010
06:09 PM ET
13 years ago
Obama will continue helping Colombia fight drug trafficking
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama on Thursday extended U.S. assistance to Colombia in combating civilian aircraft involved in drug trafficking.
A White House statement said Obama issued a memo to the State Department and Defense Department authorizing the continuation of what is called U.S. Drug Interdiction Assistance to Colombia.
It is the seventh straight year that the interdiction assistance has been extended.
The memo said Colombia has appropriate procedures in place to protect against innocent loss of life from interdiction against civil aircraft "reasonably suspected" of illicit drug trafficking.
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Drugs are the worst enemy of our society!!
Waste of $. We have fighting the War of Drugs for over 20 years and it is only getting worse not better. Spending more and more $ isn't working.
Time to end this and quit spending such vast sums of taxpayer $ on something that clearly isn't making any difference.
'It is the seventh straight year that the interdiction assistance has been extended.'
If an idea works, no matter who had said idea, then it should be allowed to keep on existing (and working).
Thank you for putting any sort of 'politics' aside and doing just that Mr. Obama.
Good go on down there and stay Barry.
Colombia is a narcocracy. Like continuing the war in Afghanistan, this is another major Obama mistake that will hurt the U.S.
Just not Arizona
"The memo said Colombia has appropriate procedures in place to protect against innocent loss of life from interdiction against civil aircraft "reasonably suspected" of illicit drug trafficking." AGAIN.