Well, I’ve been thinking about this all week, ruminating and churning it around in my brain, and I just can’t keep it in any longer. I started thinking when I read your editorial “Action needed in Colombia,” and I just needed to write and say I couldn’t agree with you more. “Military might is the only remedy to this illness” was a chord that struck up some harmony in my heart and in my mind.

You would think after we have been drinking their coffee all these years that the Colombian peasants would be grateful and should owe us something. But no. They start growing this cocaine stuff just because we U.S. citizens are willing to pay more for cocaine than for coffee. And that’s not even to mention the marijuana problem they have created for us, too.

I read in the newspapers that the cocaine farmers make more than $5,000 a year growing cocaine, which is many times more than what their neighbors who have not been perverted by greed are making, and certainly a lot more than they need to scrape by on a subsistence level in that broken down country of theirs.

Greed is what this whole problem is all about. If it wasn’t for those greedy Colombian drug farmers, this country wouldn’t have any drug problems or all of the other problems what come with the dope heads.

As in the words of your editorial writer, “If the involvement means military force, so be it.” And I’m not afraid to drop some bombs either. Who the heck do they think they are allowing our citizens to smuggle their dope into our country to feed the drug habits of millions of our innocent addicts anyway? Let’s go down there and blast the hell out of the countryside for a while and see if that doesn’t make them humble so we can go back to the business of being decent U.S. citizens again, and they can satisfy their greedy needs selling us cooffe just like they used to in the good old days. Viva Juan Valdez and I just hope we don’t hit his coffee farm by mistake. My appologies to Mrs. Olson if we do.

TR Biddle

Senior

Computer science