Colombia Quote by Barry McCaffrey

“Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.”

Barry McCaffrey

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Colombia Drug Peace Position Problem Process

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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

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Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last…

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Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other.…

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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of…

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The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations…

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