Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000

Clinton & Colombia: The Privilege of Folly

By Mark Danner

In foreign affairs, folly is the privilege of great powers, for they alone can be certain to survive it. Last month Americans embarked on a policy of exquisite folly: funding both sides of Colombia's civil war.



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