The Colombia Plan

Take a product, Coke; sell it around the world; make billions; and, you have a great corporation: Coca-Cola. Take a product, coke; sell it around the world; make billions; and, you have a horrible country: Colombia. Everyone knows that the original Coca-Cola contained extracts of coca leaves, the same used to produce cocaine. So, early Coca-Cola had some of the cocaine drug in it. Coca-Cola still uses an extract of coca leaves in Coca-Cola for …

…financially to a military cause, especially one that so profoundly affects the U.S., the next step will be American military involvement, either to fight drugs or to prop up the government of its newfound friend, Andres Pastrana. Why then did the U.S. choose to put itself on the losing side of the oldest Civil War in South America? As Alexander Pope said, “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” (Essay on Criticism)