Friday, June 24, 2011
Drug War Report
While the U.S. drug war in Latin America might not -- as in Iraq -- have routinely misplaced pallets of shrink-wrapped bundles of U.S. currency used to bribe officials and informants, the accounting for U.S. drug war funds is anything but transparent. In the wake of the international drug commission report that concluded the drug war has been a colossal failure, one that dramatically increased violence without significantly decreasing the flow of drugs, the Pentagon is having difficulty persuading Congress to continue pouring billions into the program. Even if it weren't for the fact that the drug war is replete with scandals, the outsourcing of accounting as well as mercenaries leaves some members of the U.S. Senate wondering what else they don't know.
