Good Morning, Colombia. Arianna Huffington: “For more than a year, critics of our government’s drug war aid package to Colombia (now

hovering at $2 billion) have been warning of the mission creep that threatens to embed us

ever deeper in that country’s 4-decade-old civil war.

Well, the slippery slope just got greased.” Buried in the House foreign operations appropriation bill is a provision that would remove restrictions on U.S. funding of mercenaries for the Colombian “counterdrug” war. Common Dreams