Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, visiting Colombia recently, praised the success of U.S. military aid there. Colombia is the third largest recipient of U.S. aid. On a recent Witness for Peace delegation to Colombia, I saw what this aid accomplishes.

Colombia's army is now "pacifying" urban neighborhoods by forcibly rounding up community activists on the pretext of supposed ties to leftist rebel groups. We visited displaced people on the hillsides above Medellin who were terrorized by one of these middle-of-the-night military raids a week before our visit - terror paid for in part with our tax dollars.

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