End-use monitoring has failed miserably in the past. I would support enforcement from the Leahy amendment and end-use monitoring. However, I am very much afriad that once the war is accelerated that the situation becomes so confused and violent that it becomes a war of your truth against my truth, your version of reality against my version of reality. This is exactly the game the Reagan administration played in El Salvador. Both sides have displayed intransigence in peace negotiations.
Illegal narcotics are Colombia's third largest export.
Pastrana rejects the term narco-terrorist. An elected president can negotiate a peace with insurgents who have a politcal agenda. He cannot negotiate honorably with socalled narco-terrorists. The use of this term by high US officials directly undermines Pres. Pastrana's peace initiatives.