Your Tax Dollars Pay for Mercenary Warfare in Colombia
Here's a pretty old legacy post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 23 years ago, in 2001, on the World Wide Web.
Some $600 million of your tax dollars are at work in Colombia funding mercenaries in the Drug War without any accountability to the people or responsibility on the shoulders of the government when they commit human rights abuses [CorpWatch]. At least four Americans employed by DynCorp have died or been killed in action while in Colombia, but since they are not "US military" there aren’t any of those inconvenient body bags on the network news; they may as well be tourists who died abroad. The US sure has learned its lesson from Vietnam: when you get involved in bloody, immoral imperialist wars, outsource it so that you don’t have to deal with hostile US opinion when they see what you’re doing blasted all over the evening news.