US training the dictators of tomorrow?

[The Northerner]

Tuesday marked the 20 year anniversary of the ex-Panamanian Dictator Manuel Noriega's sentencing for drug trafficking. Noriega was on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency and graduated from the School of the Americas. His incarceration represents America's failure of US foreign policy in Latin American and despite the US' efforts to stop the flow of drugs the demand has yet to be curtailed. So what will it take to win the war on drugs? Nico Udu-Gama, a field organizer for the School of the Americas Watch, joins us with his take on the war on drugs.

[GopperStopper2680]

1. And of course let's not forget Bin Laden...

Who was also trained by the CIA along with other Afghan rebels in the eighties, and armed to combat Soviet forces in hopes of stopping the spread of Communism into Afghanistan. Speak of making a deal with the devil. They then used those same skills and weapons against us following 9/11. The CIA was warned that he was a bad egg....So yes it appears that the US Government has become something like a prep school for dictators and terrorists.

[maindawg]

2. We have seen the enemy

And it is us. The MIC that President Ike warned us about. They are now called ,'contractors'.
I am offended by these people. I am offended by the teamonkeys who support this shit by ignoring it. I am offended by insane drug laws that have 4 million Americans locked up, lives ruined all for the sake of the DOLLAR.

[PDJane]

3. The US has been doing this for a long time.

Why do you think the School of the Americas exists? What do you think it does?

[JoeyT]

4. +1

We trained a whole bunch of the ones from today and yesterday. Training the ones of tomorrow shouldn't come as much of a shock.