A daddy blog.

16 November 2002

Then again…

In fairness to Bushies: this is a good sign of straightening priorities away from Drug War and toward hunting Islamo-wingjobs. Two hopeful grafs, one frustrating:

The Pentagon is to scale back its £800m-a-year war on the narcotics trade to free up special forces troops, reconnaissance aircraft and satellites for the battle against international terrorism.

Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, is spearheading the move to bleed off and redeploy cash, manpower and equipment "because of the changed national security environment after September 11".

Colombia, the focus of the campaign to clamp down on industrial-level trafficking by the powerful cartels, is to remain an exception to the proposed cutbacks.


Wolfowitz really seems to be a good, smart guy. May be why he doesn’t make it to the top echelon.