What most media missed in Clinton's confirmation hearings: the end of Plan Columbia?

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No Plan Mexico? Sounds like Kerry won't let it happen and is laying down the markers to Obama and Clinton, forcing Clinton into position to have to back away from the policy of every president from Reagan to Bush2.

http://narconews.com/Issue55/article3338.html

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And it was also very encouraging to see Kerry begin to stake out his turf newly as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee:

And one of Kerry's written questions to Clinton suggests he's soured considerably on "Plan Colombia" - the multi-billion dollar US military intervention in that country - which after nine years has not shown results at what was stated as its main goal: impeding the production and trafficking of cocaine. Kerry's question also revealed his evident concern about repeating the mistakes of "Plan Colombia" now with "Plan Mexico," also known as the "Merida Initiative":

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An October 2008 report by the GAO concluded that, although Plan Colombia improved security conditions in Colombia, it has not significantly reduced the amount of illicit drugs entering the United States. What lessons can be drawn from Plan Colombia, not only to improve its effectiveness, but to improve other U.S. counternarcotics policies, including the Merida Initiative, in Latin America?
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That question was a friendly but tough shot across the bow from Kerry, who in the 1990s led the Senate investigation exposing US government involvement in cocaine trafficking through the Iran-Contra case. It put Obama and Clinton on notice that he, their political ally, and now the most powerful voice on foreign policy in Congress, is not going to sit back quietly if Plan Colombia marches on as before, or if Plan Mexico repeats its grievous errors...
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1. Kick for ending the drug war lies.

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